Hachette India

Still Life With Chickens

Catherine Goldhammer

In this lovely, unconventional, often funny memoir, we meet Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated, and several tax-brackets poorer, forced by circumstance to move from the affluent New England suburb of her daughter's childhood into a new, more rustic life by the sea. As she gradually transforms her new house with its tawdry exterior but radiant soul; as she watches her precocious 12 year-old daughter blossom into a stylish and sophisticated teenager; and as she tends to the needs of six enigmatic chickens, Catherine's life starts to slowly shift from chaos to grace.

Beautifully written and ultimately inspiring, Still Life With Chickens is an unforgettable lesson in hope, in starting over, and in the transcendent wisdom that can often be found in the most unlikely of places.

Catherine Goldhammer

Catherine Goldhammer is a graduate of Goddard College and was a Poetry Fellow in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her poetry has been published in the Georgia Review and the Ohio Review and by Innerer Klang Press. She has worked as a writer a trainer and a teacher of reading. She lives in a small cottage on the coast of New England with her daughter her dog a cat named Monkey and a small flock of chickens.