The Unsettlers

Mark Sundeen offers a journalistically rigorous and personally felt account of three back-to-the-land farming families in three different U.S. regions: Missouri, Detroit, and Montana. Sundeen follows his accounts with discussions of the decisions he and his wife are in the process of making about how to live and raise their family. Sundeen's reading of his own work provides listeners with the customary advantages and disadvantages. He conveys his passion in what is a passionate story. His emphasis and pronunciation are as the author intended. But he's not a professional narrator and is, occasionally, inclined to monotone. Sundeen does not offer easy answers. Instead, he raises questions about how to lead our lives by allowing us to see through the eyes of those who are committed to living more deliberately. F.C. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine