{"product_id":"2940169906257","title":"Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm","description":"\u003cp\u003eFresh, intimate, and radiantly meditative, \u003ci\u003eHoming Instincts\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of one woman¿s ¿coming of age¿ as a first-time parent on her family¿s rural Ohio farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Reunion Island, picking grapes in France, and witnessing a revolution in Mexico, Sarah Menkedick, at thirty-one, embarks on what might become her most challenging adventure yet: she moves into a tiny, nineteenth-century cabin on her family¿s farm and prepares to become a mother. She never expected to want this kind of settled life, and yet she finds a new peace and inspiration in the surrounding natural world as she and her husband, Jorge, prepare for the exciting unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMenkedick juxtaposes the progress of her pregnancy and the larger questions it inspires with recollections of her family history; being raised by a single and unapologetically hippie father; her paternal grandmother, Millie, whose Midwestern German fortitude informed the character of the next two generations; and her husband Jorge¿s loving but difficult childhood in Oaxaca, Mexico. Altogether, it becomes a luminous portrait of the time just before and after new motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099794292976,"sku":"2940169906257","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169906257_p0.jpg?v=1769902626","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169906257","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}