{"product_id":"9781681370750","title":"The Farm in the Green Mountains","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Farm in the Green Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of a refugee family finding its true home—thousands of miles from its homeland.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice  and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a  former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their  circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt  Brecht. But then the Nazis took over and Carl’s most recent success, a  play satirizing German militarism, impressed them in all the wrong ways.  The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to  Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los  Angeles didn’t suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in  the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century  farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. In Europe, the  Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found  themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious  ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes “like babies.” But in  spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice  found that in America she had at last discovered her “native land.” This  generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar  Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166324900080,"sku":"9781681370750","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681370750_p0.jpg?v=1763692539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681370750","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}