The twelve months between June 2005 and 2006 were grim for
the author. Her husband of twenty years
and she have parted company, but he hasn’t gone far – just to a house across
the road, in fact, from the six acre farm they once occupied together. With few monetary resources (she’s a writer….),
Mardi Jo struggles to keep the house and farm together and keep food on the
table for her three hungry and growing sons.
Meanwhile, the divorce proceedings drag on and one disaster after
another tries her resilience and that of her boys. Beloved animals die, appliances fail, there’s
a fox in the hen house, etc. But a native
optimism and a rather half-assed search for spirituality sustain her and by the
end of the year, life has become different, and better, in many respects. One has to accept the premise that she left “Mr.
Wonderful,” as he is sarcastically referred to, for good reason, although it
does seem that that the marriage just kind of got dull. She initiated the split. So to some extent she is culpable of her sons’
and her difficulties. OK, not great, but
you have to admire her spirit. 258 pp.
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