{"product_id":"free-range-girl-meghan-cox-gurdon-9798898950095","title":"Free Range Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Are you craving a better path to the good life than safety and comfort? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFree Range Girl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is the delightful story of Meghan Cox Gurdon's countercultural off-the-grid childhood in rural Maine. This memoir is as inspirational as it is entertaining.\" --Arthur C. Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e, #1 New York Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003est-selling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Meaning of Your Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poignant and affectionate memoir about a time when being young, free, and largely unsupervised was the norm, before the digital age ushered in a world of algorithms and overparenting.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in 1976, the bicentennial year, \u003ci\u003eFree Range Girl\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the year twelve-year-old Meghan spent on a homestead in rural Maine with her father, who built the house by hand. A proponent of the idealistic \"back to the land\" movement of the '60s and '70s, Meghan's father hoped that renouncing modern conveniences would usher in a life of greater simplicity, authenticity, and independence. Many locals were skeptical, regarding Meghan and her father and other newcomers as intruders \"from away.\" Nevertheless, without electricity or indoor plumbing, Meghan found herself undergoing--and often enjoying--the formative experiences of a free range girl, which included blowing her eyebrows off trying to cook with gas, finding a severed pig's head in a wheelbarrow, roaming the countryside on an enormous horse with neither saddle nor helmet, and seeing her father use a handgun to execute a misbehaving alarm clock. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeghan faces challenges beyond these--family breakups, attempts to bond with new school friends, a serious accident that sends her to the hospital-yet she thrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFree Range Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and luminous evocation of youthful autonomy, providing a striking counterpoint to the screen-saturated and tightly managed childhoods of today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Meghan Cox Gurdon's \u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted Hour\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Parents and grandparents shouldn't miss \u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted Hour\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- James Patterson, international bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morehouse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562137292993,"sku":"9798898950095","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/free-range-girl-meghan-cox-gurdon-9798898950095","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}