$18.95
Paperback, 6″ x 9″
112 pages
ISBN 978-1-63381-450-9
by Terri Young
Apositive, homegrown, and timeless coming-of-age story about one family’s journey, which also explores the larger cultural issue in our society of the transition of boys into manhood.
In the mid-nineties, Steve built a log cabin with his sons, Andy and Kevin. When each turned thirteen, they spent three weeks living on their own in the cabin as their rites of passage into adulthood. The story is told through their mother’s voice and observations over a ten-year period, weaving journal entries describing the leadup years and the actual rites of passage experience for each son.
A Cabin in Maine recounts this family’s trials and tribulations, worries, fears, tears, laughter, and love that each family member experienced as they journeyed on the path of growing, assisting, letting go, and observing boys becoming men.
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Rites of passage, as Terri’s family experienced, change not just the boy becoming a man, but everyone whose lives intersect with theirs. A Cabin in Maine is a heartwarming read told through the voice of a mencsh. Terri and Steve, I wish I had parents like you!
—Israel Helfand, MS, PhD, marriage and family therapist, Cabot, Vermont
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A long-term yoga and meditation practitioner, Terri has always been drawn to look deeply and fearlessly into life’s deepest questions. She has discovered through this circuitous path that there is only love and becoming your authentic self. Her love of family, community, art, and beauty of nature fills her days.