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In a town where everybody knows every thing, the author of this lovely, unconventional memoir came to live in a place nobody knows exists. In "Still Life with Chickens" (Hudson Street Press, $21.95), Catherine Goldhammer wakes at midlife to come across herself newly separated and many tax brackets poorer, forced by circumstances to move from the affluent New England suburb of her daughter's childhood into a brand new, far more rustic life by the sea.

Against all logic, partly to please her daughter and partly for factors not clear to her at the time, she begins this year of transition by purchasing six baby chickens, whose job-she comes to suspect-is to pull her and her daughter forward, out of one life and into a further.

As she gradually transforms her new home-with its tawdry exterior but radiant soul-she watches her precocious 12-year-old daughter blossom into a stylish and sophisticated teenager. And as she tends to the wants of six enigmatic chickens, Goldhammer's life slowly shifts from chaos to grace.

Beautifully written and quietly profound, "Still Life with Chickens" is an unforgettable lesson in hope, in starting over and inside the transcendent wisdom which could generally be found within the most unlikely of places.

The brave, funny and heartbreakingly attractive memoir is accessible wherever books are sold.

Jim Wicht has requested a thin black line about the photo.

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