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A candid and heartwarming memoir of reinvention about a city girl whotrades her career and her heels for five acres and a herd of goats
Jake Keiser is my favorite kind of womangutsy tenacious and not afraid to be vulnerable And the animals are pretty fcking adorable tooTara Schuster author of Buy Yourself the Fcking Lilies
Jake Keiser was living the life in Tampa Florida running a highpowered PR firm and juggling drink dates shopping sprees and charity galas But at age thirtyeight following a failed marriage a series of miscarriages and a stillblistering breakup she began to suffer from extreme anxiety Hit with the realization that no amount of Botox could fill the hole in her heart she decided to make the impulse purchase of a lifetime and bought a farm in the middle of nowhere Mississippi
Suddenly responsible for more than seventyfive animals and five acres of land and with only one bar of cell service Jake begins her search for inner peace She learns to fix a well haul wood shoot a gun and care for baby chicks goats turkeys geese dogs and a cat playing spa music for them when theyre sick and naming them after her favorite fashion designers The only problem is that she still cant figure out how to truly care for herselfUnable to escape the accumulated pain of her past Jake hits rock bottom With nowhere left to run shes finally forced to confront a bracing reality The farm wont save her Only she can save herself
Poignant hilarious and utterly charming Daffodil Hill is for anyone who feels stuckfor those of us strapped to our desks and dreaming of an unconventional life for those of us searching for something more Most of all it is for people who believe that the greatest love story of all is the one we write with ourselves
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