Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

Melissa Gilbert's memoir, "Back to the Prairie," is a heartwarming and hilarious account of her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the star of Little House on the Prairie, Melissa has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood, but when her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, she begins to fall back in love with nature.

When work takes them to New York, they find a rustic cottage in the Catskill Mountains to call home, but "rustic" is a generous description for the state of the house, requiring a lot of blood, sweat, and tears for the newlyweds to make habitable.

As the pandemic descends on the world, Melissa trades Botox treatments for DIY projects, power lunching for gardening and raising chickens, and her life is rediscovered anew in her own little house in the Catskills.

With a foreword by Timothy Busfield, this memoir is a must-read for anyone looking for a fresh perspective on life, love, and the importance of finding your true home.