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**__**A charming return-to-the-land memoir of a family finding a new home—halfway across the world.**__** Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. After Carl's work fell afoul of the Nazis, however, the couple and their two daughters were forced to flee Europe. Los Angeles didn't suit them and neither did New York, but then a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm, the eighteenth-century house where they would live for the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves joyfully building chicken coops and refereeing fights between unruly ducks. Despite the endless work a new farm required and brutal winters that triggered bouts of melancholy, Alice discovered that in America she had found her "native land." And her...

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Author

Herdan-Zuckmayer, Alice;Zuckmayer, Carl

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681370743

Category

travel

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (268 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14