Welcome Mardi Jo Link, whose funny and engaging, memoir Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm was named a Michigan Notable Book, a Great Lakes Great Read, and also spent several months on the Heartland Bestseller List.
Mardi Link was born in Detroit and grew up in the state’s southeastern suburbs, spending summers up north on Lake Michigan. The only daughter of educators, she attended Michigan State University’s school of journalism, and has worked as a police and general assignment reporter, magazine editor, and freelance writer. Her first book, When Evil Came to Good Hart, spent four months on the Heartland Bestseller List. Isadore’s Secret, came next and also spent several months on the Heartland Bestseller List. Mardi Link’s latest work, Bootstrapper, is a memoir about survival and self-discovery told with humor and grace. After a painful divorce, Link was left with a mountain of debt and the care of her century-old farmhouse. Bootstrapper tells the story of how, over the course of one long year, she holds on to her sons, saves the farm from foreclosure, and finds her way back to a life of richness and meaning on the land she loves.
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