Description
In the summer of 1990, Charles Gaines and his wife bought 160 acres of wild land on the northeast coast of Nova Scotia.  They began to see the land as a home that might heal their recently battered thirty-year marriage; and as an opportunity to take on a big, risky project instead of settling into the caution and gradual losses of middle-class middle age.  Enlisting their children, they decide to build a cabin on the land with their own hands.  A Family Place is a transfiguring tale of personal and familial regeneration.
