**New York Times Bestseller** From Erin Fr ench\, owner of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen\, a TIME world d ining destination\, a life-affirming memoir about survival\, renewal\, and finding a community to lift her up.
\nLong before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the re servation book opens each spring\, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm\, a teenager falling in love with food while working th e line at her dad&rsquo\;s diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th-century mill . This singular memoir&mdash\;a classic American story&mdash\;invites read ers to Erin's corner of her beloved Maine to share the real person behind the &ldquo\;girl from Freedom&rdquo\; fairytale\, and the not-so-picture-p erfect struggles that have taken every ounce of her strength to overcome\, and that make Erin&rsquo\;s life triumphant.
\nIn Finding Freedom\, Erin opens up to the challenges\, stumbles\, and victories that have led her to the exact place she was ever meant to be\, telling stories of multi ple rock-bottoms\, of darkness and anxiety\, of survival as a jobless sing le mother\, of pills that promised release but delivered addiction\, of a man who seemed to offer salvation but in the end ripped away her very sens e of self. And of the beautiful son who was her guiding light as she slowl y rebuilt her personal and culinary life around the solace she found in fo od&mdash\;as a source of comfort\, a sense of place\, as a way of bringing goodness into the world. Erin&rsquo\;s experiences with deep loss and abi ding hope\, told with both honesty and humor\, will resonate with women ev erywhere who are determined to find their voices\, create community\, grow stronger and discover their best-selves despite seemingly impossible odds . Set against the backdrop of rural Maine and its lushly intense\, bountif ul seasons\, Erin reveals the passion and courage needed to invent oneself anew\, and the poignant\, timeless connections between food and generosit y\, renewal and freedom.
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