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Ken Carey’s book packs half an entire life of good living–years of raising children and learning the ways of the Arkansas backwoods–into a mere 160 pages. There, on his 80-acre patch of ground, Carey studies the ways of the mountain people, campaigns against the forestry industry’s clear-cutting practices, raises vegetables, and comes to grips with the realities of the place–such as venomous snakes outnumbering people by a wide margin up within the mountains. This fact prompts Carey to examine his leanings toward Buddhism: the kill-nothing philosophy is sublime. But within the Ozarks any individual exhibiting so pacific a temperament right through summer months would soon be compost. Carey seems to have found a real home on this neglected corner of The united states, and he is given us a fantastic book.