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A remote farm in Norway. A young California girl unwittingly in charge of it all.

In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in a small Norwegian town for what she thought would be a summer job—only to be taking the reins of a centuries-old mountain farm for a year, alone, at 20, with no farming experience. This “open, smart, frank” (Pulitzer Prize-winner Gary Snyder) memoir is a story of remarkable resilience and a record of the fascinating but rapidly vanishing traditions of the community that took her in.