Memoir
Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
2013·272 pages
A newly divorced mother fights to keep her century-old Michigan farmhouse and raise her three sons through financial hardship, farm labor, and daily resilience.
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A newly divorced mother fights to keep her century-old Michigan farmhouse and raise her three sons through financial hardship, farm labor, and daily resilience.
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Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most. It's the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link's dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband of nineteen years have just called it quits, leaving her with serious cash-flow problems and a looming divorce. More broke than ever, Link makes a seemingly impossible resolution: to h...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Hog butchering and farm animal handling scenes
Profanity
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Occasional strong language in irreverent narration
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Passing metaphorical reference to Zen
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Light themes of economic hardship and self-reliance
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Emotional strain of divorce and financial crisis
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