{"product_id":"one-good-thing-a-living-memoir-paperback","title":"One Good Thing: A Living Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eM. a. C. Farrant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Good Thing \u003c\/i\u003eis a charming collision of memoir with the living, exuberant, and vulnerable natural world. Written in sixty-four short epistolary chapters, M.A.C. Farrant's latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society. \u003ci\u003eOne Good Thing \u003c\/i\u003eis also an homage to gardening columnist extraordinaire Helen Chesnut of Victoria's \u003ci\u003eTimes Colonist\u003c\/i\u003e, each section of the book focusing and expanding on one of her gardening columns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing a familiar \"Dear Helen\" structure, almost every piece in \u003ci\u003eOne Good Thing \u003c\/i\u003eintimately and playfully relates to the gardening article that gave rise to it while simultaneously ranging into myriad other topics, including the author's creative practice, personal and familial details, and comic riffs on a number of close-to-the-heart themes. With a mindful persistence that's often hilarious, the book strives to find personal \"calm abidance\" through the practice of gardening as mediated by the universal and personal practice of writing.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM.A.C. Farrantis the author of seventeen works of fiction, non-fiction, and memoir, two plays, and over one hundred book reviews and essays. A trilogy of her \"miniature fictions\"--\u003ci\u003eThe World Afloat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Days\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e--was published by Talonbooks between 2014 and 2019 and has won a number of literary prizes, including the City of Victoria Book Butler Book Prize. \u003ci\u003eBC Bookworld \u003c\/i\u003ecalled Farrant \"Canada's most acerbic and intelligent humourist\" and the \u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen \u003c\/i\u003edubbed her \"one of the best humourists in the land.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334698078445,"sku":"9781772012842","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/96Tjic0NiO9781772012842.webp?v=1785020130","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/one-good-thing-a-living-memoir-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}