Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea, (Paperback)

from aleahmarie

"Still Life with Chickens" is a cleverly crafted memoir in which the author recounts her first year following an amicable divorce. In her new, post-marriage life Catherine Goldhammer is suddenly several tax brackets poorer and must make difficult decisions: new house, new job, new lifestyle. With...

from stonelaura

After an amicable divorce, teacher Catherine Goldhammer needs to sell her beautiful home in the upscale eastern Massachusetts neighborhood where she never really felt she fit in. Motivating her precocious twelve year-old daughter to move took the promise of six tiny chicks to seal the deal. Goldh...

from debnance

"I realized what the chickens had given us, way back then, when it made no sense to get them and we got them anyway. They had given us hope and maybe that's all there is. Maybe that's what Yo-Yo Ma gives us, and Bach, and Puccini, and the faces of our children, our friends, our families, good wor...

from majorbabs

Catherine Goldhammer divorces, and moves from the community she calls Hearts-Are-Cold to a house by a salt pond -- with teenage daughter AND chickens. It's a little easier to be divorced when you got a lot of money in the process, but Goldhammer's book should resonate with anyone starting over.

from readaholic12

Still Life with Chickens is a quick, funny and insightful read about changing your life, about leaving the comfort of suburban America and an adequate marriage for something more. In this case the something more includes a bathtub full of chickens! I enjoyed the book immensely, probably because I...