When she started elementary school, Melissa Coleman was confronted with a novelty: a toilet. “It was a miracle to watch the water swirl down the hole and then fill up again,” she writes in her memoir, This Life Is in Your Hands (Harper Perennial, $15.99). Coleman’s parents, pioneers of the back-to- the-land movement, had raised her not to care about such matters of personal hygiene. Coleman used an outhouse, with dried peat moss for toilet paper, or simply let nature take its course in the fields of Greenwood Farm, where her family lived on the coast of Maine.
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