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Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, LoveIm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book... The resulting journey is both brave and honest.A Library Journal Best Book of 2014Novella Carpenter picks up the phone one day to receive some disturbing news her father has officially gone missing. Carpenters father, Georgea back-to-the-land homesteader and troubled Korean War veteranhas spent decades battling his inner demons while largely absenting himself from his childrens lives. Though George is ultimately found, Carpenter is forced to confront the truth her time with her dadnow seventy-three years oldis limited, and the moment to restore their relationship is now. Gone Feral is the story of Carpenters search for her parents broken past in the harsh wilds of Idaho.
About the Author
Novella Carpenter has a farm on a dead-end street in the ghetto of Oakland, CA. On GhostTown Farm, she has raised vegetables, chickens, rabbits, ducks, goats, turkeys, pigs, and bees. Her work has appeared in salon.com, sfgate.com, and Food and Wine magazine. She is also a member of the Biofuel Oasis Cooperative, a biodiesel station and urban farming feed store in Berkeley, CA. Her next book, due out in February 2011 is a how-to urban farm manual, written with Willow Rosenthal of City Slicker Farms. She keeps a blog about happenings on GhostTown Farm at www.novellacarpenter.com.
