You ready to sit down with a book that tells the story of a farmer from Traverse City who goes from broke to bad ass, all while telling a great story? Then you're probably going to want to pick up Bootstrapper.
Excerpt: Mardi Jo Link sure knows how to make an entrance.
Readers meet her one sunny morning sitting on her front porch near Traverse City, drinking beer and spying on her soon-to-be-ex husband through binoculars in her memoir, "Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm." Then she turns his old jazz records into Frisbees and makes a bonfire of his old T-shirts, college term papers and notebooks on her front lawn -- with Donna Summer serving as the soundtrack for the destruction.
"Nobody likes a drunk, soon-to-be-divorced, in-debt, swollen-eyed, single mother farmeress," she writes.
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Source: Mlive.com
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