"Taproot - Coming Home to Prairie Hill is about fulfilling fantasies as the nest empties and life shrinks. The author, a commentator on Vermont Public Radio, describes how she and her husband, children of Holocaust survivors, strive to overcome their nomadic lives through devotion to a place. They buy land on a Vermont hill, build a house, put in large gardens, and begin a new life, learning to observe the huge bowl of sky, the windstorms, the seasons and they puzzling animal and human neighbors while struggling to restore the hill to its "natural" state. Infused with wry humor, the story details some of the thousands of deciisions in buying land and building a house ..... blended throughout is the story of survival, of moving beyond generational horrors, of finding strength in the natural world. Taproot is a deft combination of memoir, nature writing and how-to book that inspires, entertains and informs."