Flat Broke with Two Goats
A Memoir
$34.20
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2018
Summary
When life gets your goat, bring in the herd.
Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and naming his doeling Merlene. She didn’t expect to be buying organic yogurt for her chickens. She never thought she would be pulling camouflage carpet off her ceiling or rescuing opossums from her barn and calling it “date night.” Most importantly, Jennifer never thought she would only have $4.57 in her bank account.
When Jennifer discover…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781492655381 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1492655384 |
| Author: | Jennifer McGaha |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 405g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
“An enjoyable back-to-the land memoir. ” - Library Journal
“An enjoyable back-to-the land memoir. ” - Library Journal
“An easy read with a warm tone, like hearing from an old friend, McGaha’s memoir is touching, funny, and hard to put down.” - Booklist
“Flat Broke with Two Goats is a funny, moving and unflinchingly honest reckoning. Reduced by desperate circumstances, Jennifer and her husband find themselves living a life that echoes the hardscrabble Appalachian ways of their grandparents. This sweet miracle of a memoir tells the story of a struggling couple who have to lose their house, and just about everything else, to find home.” - Tommy Hays, author of The Pleasure Was Mine
“You’ll be alarmed, breathless, and ultimately charmed by “Flat Broke with Two Goats” because yes, it could happen to you…” - Terri Schlichenmeyer, Bookworm Sez
“Flat Broke with Two Goats is a brave book written in beautifully unflinching detail. McGaha lays bare the flaws in her marriage, the poor choices that led them to rock bottom and how they found their way to a new definition of home.” - BookPage
About The Author
Jennifer McGaha
Jennifer McGaha is a Pushcart Prize nominee and student at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-Asheville and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.
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