
Back to the Prairie
A Home Remade, a Life Rediscovered
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Narrated by:
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Melissa Gilbert
About this listen
Includes a foreword written and read by Timothy Busfield
The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she is always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing.
When her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, Melissa begins to fall back in love with nature. And 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.
When the pandemic descends on the world, it further nudges Melissa out of the spotlight and into the woods. She trades Botox treatments for DIY projects, power lunching for gardening and raising chickens, and soon her life is rediscovered anew in her own little house in the Catskills.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2022 Half Pint Enterprises. All rights reserved (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reservedSo of course I thought I knew the actress who played Laura as a mixture of “wet” and “firecracker”.
This book opened my eyes to a new side. The adult that the actress became.
I strongly felt for her as she described her lockdown and thought of my separation from my grandson for whom I’d provided child care as I supported my daughter and her partner as they worked. Suddenly it wasn’t advisable as I was on immune suppression so as my daughter joked I got an abundance of peace and quiet.
As “Half pint” described her experience it helped me come to terms with mine…
It’s worth a read just to get another perspective on the pandemic.
Wish her other books were available as audiobooks to learn more about her childhood and her recipes as audiobooks are most accessible for me.
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