Twenty Acres A Seventies Childhood in the Woods

"Twenty Acres is an engaging, thoughtful memoir of growing up in an off-the-grid cabin as part of the 1970s back-to-the-land movement. Sarah Neidhardt captures her subject beautifully and offers a compelling portrait of a highly specific, historically significant time and place."-Kate Daloz, author of We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America

"At turns poetic, shocking, terrifying, and nostalgic-and always riveting and real as dirt-Sarah Neidhardt's meticulously researched memoir gives voice to a generation of back-to-the-landers' children and to this hidden history of American family life."-Ariel Gore, author of The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar

"Twenty Acres is authentic, clear, and evocative . . . a superb book."-David Orr, author of Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward

"Weaving together extraordinary research and memories with gorgeously rendered prose, Neidhardt captures the zeitgeist of the back-to-the-land movement in the story of her family's years in the Ozarks. Equal parts memoir and ethnography, Twenty Acres is lush, haunting, and ultimately elegiac."-Megan Kruse, author of Call Me Home