This Life Is in Your Hands

<p>Lyrical and down-to-earth wry and heartbreaking <em>This Life Is in Your Hands </em>is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn't just tell the story of her family's brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history. --Tom Perrotta <p>In a work of power and beauty reminiscent of Tobias Wolff Jeannette Walls and Dave Eggers Melissa Coleman delivers a luminous evocative childhood memoir exploring the hope and struggle behind her family's search for a sustainable lifestyle. With echoes of <em>The Liars' Club </em>and <em>Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight</em> Coleman's searing chronicle tells the true story of her upbringing on communes and sustainable farms along the rugged Maine coastline in the 1970's embedded within a moving personal quest for truth that her experiences produced. </p>