A Country Year
Living the Questions
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 26, 1999
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm.
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- Who it’s for
- A candid reflection on middle age, beekeeping, and finding solace in the natural world.
- Themes
- Life on the land, Solace in nature, Finding one's way in middle age
- Genres
- Personal Memoirs, Beekeeping, Women's Lives
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When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved books ever written about life on the land, about a woman finding her way in middle age.
Finding Her Way
A candid reflection on middle age, beekeeping, and finding solace in the natural world.
Come here for
- Daily work with bees and close attention to the land
- An honest reckoning with change in middle age
Expect
- A reflective account grounded in lived experience
- Solace in nature, without easy answers
Where it sits
| Beekeeping | 42% |
|---|---|
| Personal Memoirs | 34% |
| Women's Lives | 25% |
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Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- Women's Lives
- Adventurers & Explorers
- Personal Memoirs
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- Essay Collections
- Nature & the Outdoors
- Animals
- Nature Writing
- Authors
- Sue Hubbell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 26, 1999
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Life on the land · Solace in nature · Finding one's way in middle age
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives