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The Twenty Best Books of the Year—So Far

Possum Living, by Dolly Freed

“I refuse to spend the first 60 years of my life worrying about the last 20,” said the plucky writer Dolly Freed in her 1970s tribute to scrappiness, Possum Living. Thirty years after it was first published, this frank and no-nonsense manifesto about skipping out on office life and surviving off the land (and roadkill!) in rural Pennsylvania was re-released with new insights from its salt-of-the-earth author, who now lives in Texas and post-Possum publication became a NASA engineer. We spoke with the author about the book’s legacy and what her life is like now.

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