"My heroine was the Little Red Hen. 'I will do it myself, she said, and she did.' And I did." Recently divorced, the author puts a down payment on a piece of land and moves her young children into their new home- a singlewide trailer that has seen better times. Unable to find work, she falls back on skills learned long ago in 4-H, raising a vegetable garden, chickens, goats, sheep and pigs to feed her family. Amidst patching the roof, fixing fences and looking for a job, Mom soon learns what it means to be poor in America. She confronts society's prejudices and unrealistic expectations with...