Letters from Valley View

In 2004, the author fled a crime-infested city, closing her business and trading in her small strip mall for a forty-acre country retreat. In this mostly-humorous memoir, she recounts her adventurous life of seclusion in the Klamath Mountains of Northern California. Whether establishing a bird sanctuary or keeping chickens, whether glorying in nature's splendor or portraying the idiosyncrasies of local oddballs, whether anticipating the annual blackberry harvest or living green in Californi...