Omega Farm

A Memoir

De: Martha McPhee

Narrado por: Tracy Thorne

Duración: 7 h y 45 m

Resumen del Editor

A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist—a candid, riveting account of her complicated bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother.

In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that’s been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother’s care and the sprawling, ramshackle property—a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees—she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will.

Martha grew up at Omega Farm with her four sisters, five stepsiblings, mother, and stepfather, in a house filled with art, people, and the kind of chaos that was sometimes benevolent, sometimes more sinister. Caring for her mother and her children, struggling to mend the forest, the past relentlessly asserts itself—even as Martha’s mother, the person she might share her memories with or even try to hold to account, no longer knows who Martha is.

A masterful exploration of a complicated family legacy and a powerful story of environmental and personal repair, Omega Farm is a testament to hope in the face of suffering, and a courageous tale about how returning home can offer a new way to understand the past.

©2023 Martha McPhee (P)2023 Simon & Schuster Audio

A book of a peculiar time.

Some of us can remember this cultural era of extreme changes. It was both liberating and terrifying. Omega Farm was not alone in it's craziness and chaos. M. McPhee is a wonderful writer.

I simply loved this book…

I am a man but there were so many things I could relate to on so many levels. Growing up in central New Jersey, early troubles in school, divorced parents at a young age. an unconventional stepfather, having a quirky “farm” (ours was on an island in Maine), concerns for our environment, caring for parents with dementia during a raging pandemic and political storm. The author is a courageous, vulnerable, smart, flawed, beautiful, woman, that puts it all out there…the good, the bad, the funny and yes, the ugly. Was hard for me to stop listening once started… I thought the narrator did an excellent job.

Loved this book

Gorgeously written and read. Feeling a family and nature entwined…and the love and realization of the world and life- overwhelming beautiful.

Love this memoir

Love everything about this book. Such a beautiful weaving together of past and present. The bonds of family and place and nature all coming together.

Model Memoir

McPhee braids together forest restoration with grief, reckoning, and reflection. She's an expert crafter. In Omega Farms McPhee makes the most of the contemporary memoir. She is kind to her characters, her current self, and her younger self.

Pity Party of One

I always finish what I’ve started even though this mind-numbing book was torture. On and on about nothing, a complete pity party. So glad it’s over and I won’t be making the same mistake picking up another book by this babbling author.