EXACT SAME MOON, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

In Fifty Acres and a Poodle, Jeanne Marie Laskas described how
she survived her first hilariously tumultuous year at Sweetwater
Farm. Now she returns with a funny, touching, and personal new
memoir of what happens after your dream comes true…
    With a picture-postcard farm, a wonderful
marriage, two mules, and a new refrigerator that spits crushed ice,
what more can a girl ask for? That’s precisely the question Jeanne
Marie asks herself as she and Alex settle into their new life at
Sweetwater Farm. Two years ago they left the city behind for a life
filled with the practical, often comical, lessons of living close
to the land—and they never looked back. Yet when her strong-willed
mom is hospitalized with a sudden and mysterious paralysis, Jeanne
Marie rushes home to Philadelphia and her extended, sometimes
chaotic, but always loving family. It’s there that she realizes
what is still missing from her life: a family of her own. Now it’s
a matter of bringing up the subject to her husband, Alex, fifteen
years older and with adult children of his own, who seems terrified
that she’s thinking of adopting a Chihuahua.
    With warmth, wisdom, and unfailing humor, Laskas
tells the poignant story of her search for motherhood—and what
happens when a woman risks happily-ever-after for something even
more precious. As she tends to her own ailing mother, Jeanne Marie
discovers that the challenges and rewards of living with Mother
Nature pale in comparison to those awakened by the nature of
mothering.
    The Exact Same Moon is filled with hilarious and
heartwarming vignettes of people and a way of life you’ll be glad
you met. From “borrowing” sheep to help mow the lawn and sitting in
on the racy hay jokes at the Agway Equine Clinic, to befriending
the notorious old lady who holds the water rights to their future
pond, corrupting the neighbors with satellite TV, and learning the
fine art of going a-calling, Laskas proves once again that
laughter, love, and wisdom are truly homegrown.

JEANNE MARIE LASKAS is a columnist for The Washington Post
Magazine, where her “Significant Others” essays appear weekly,
and a contributing editor at Esquire. She is also an
assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she
teaches creative writing. When she’s not working on her next book,
she, Alex, and their two daughters tend the goats, sheep, horses,
mules, and other animals at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill,
Pennsylvania.