Free Range Girl

A poignant and affectionate memoir about a time when being young, free, and largely unsupervised was the norm, before the digital age ushered in a world of algorithms and overparenting.

Set in 1976, the bicentennial year, Free Range Girl chronicles the year 12-year-old Meghan spent on a homestead in rural Maine with her father, who built the house by hand. A proponent of the idealistic “back to the land” movement of the ’60s and ’70s, Meghan’s father hoped that renouncing modern conveniences...