See You in a Hundred Years
豆瓣
Four Seasons in Forgotten America
Ward, Logan
简介
To save their marriage and their sanity, the author and his wife sold their belongings, packed up their two-year-old son, and moved to a rundown farmhouse in the country without any plans past surviving the year. Living as though it were the year 1900, they struggled with recalcitrant livestock, garden-destroying bugs, rain that would not come, and their own insecurities, to ultimately discover a sense of community and a sense of themselves that changed not only their marriage, but the entire Swoope, Virginia community. Lyrically told and powerfully evocative, this memoir for the modern age deals with the growing sense of disassociation and yearning to escape the frenetic pace of daily life in today’s society.
contents
Prologue ix
PART ONE: GREEN
Chapter One: Goodbye, New York 1
Chapter Two: Old Year’s Eve 15
Chapter Three: Expedition to Nowhere 35
Chapter Four: How I Learn to Drive 57
Chapter Five: Waiting for Rain 83
PART TWO: SEASONED
Chapter Six: Picking, Cleaning, Shelling, Shucking 107
Chapter Seven: News from the Future 125
Chapter Eight: Under Fire 143
Chapter Nine: Home for the Holidays 161
Chapter Ten: Winter 181
Chapter Eleven: Breeding Season 199
Chapter Twelve: Back to the Future 213
Epilogue 235
Great-Grandma McEndree’s Black Fruitcake 239
Acknowledgments 243
About the Author 245