In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir Catherine Goldhammer newly separated along with her twelve-year-old daughter starts life anew in a cottage by the sea in a rustic town where live bait is sold from vending machines Partly to please her daughter and partly for reasons not clear to her at the time she begins this year of transition by purchasing six baby chickenswhose job she comes to suspect is to pull her and her daughter forward out of one life and into another An unforgettable story filled with hope and grace Still Life with Chickens shows how transcendent wisdom can be found in the most unlikely of places
