Losing the Garden

Library Bookwatch, June, 2005

Losing The Garden

Laura Waterman

Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers

c/o Avalon Publishing Group

245 West 17th St, 11th fl, NY, NY 10011

www.shoemakerhoard.com

1593760485 $24.00 1-800-788-3123

In 1971 Laura and Guy Waterman decided to give up all the conveniences of modern urban life and homestead in a cabin in the mountains of Vermont, living off the land in harmony with the local ecology and environment. From almost thirty years they created a deliberate life, eating food they grew themselves, living without indoor plumbing or electricity. The end of this unique marriage came on February 6, 2000, when Guy climbed to the summit of Mount Lafayette in New Hampshire's White Mountains and sat down among the rocks to die. Losing The Garden: The Story Of A Marriage is the compelling and intensely personal memoir of a women who had to struggle with her husband's plan to commit suicide. This is the story of a husband's depression, an account of a marriage seen outwardly as idyllic, but deeply flawed from within. Strongly recommended reading which is both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Losing The Garden is a love story, a portrait of an intense and unusual union, and an affirmation of life after loss.