A Country Called Home

Kim Barnes

Original title: A country called home

first published 2008 Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 271 pages

A powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of In the Wilderness. Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school, and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their whole future mapped out for them in upper-crust Connecticut. But they are dreamers, and they set out to create their own farm in rural Idaho instead. The fields are in ruins when they arrive, so they hire a farmhand named Manny to h...

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A country called home edition · 2009 · Center Point Pub. · 9781602854000
A country called home edition · 2008 · Alfred A. Knopf · 271 pages · 9780307268952
A Country Called Home ebook · 2008 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307270276

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