Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Jo Link. Oh my, did I ever enjoy this book. In fact I don't think I put it down for a whole day unless I had to tend to the offspring. This is a memoir written by an absolutely stalwart and hysterically funny woman. Mardi Jo Link is not just funny and tough, though. Her writing is lyrical and I felt like I was along for the ride through much of the retelling of her experiences. Throughout the book she is searching for her spiritual self while she digs out of financial trouble and heroically holds her family together. At the end of the book I was so disappointed it was over, I wanted to spend more time in the trenches with Mardi Jo.
