Nanci Vineyard

Take a tutti-frutti roller coaster ride shotgun with boomer Nanci Vineyard on her trip through time and place as a teacher, writing coach, and witness to an America of her young adulthood through to the present. 

The author of The Boomerang House, from Austin, Texas, and a chosen child of Eureka Springs in the Ozarks and Indian Lake in the Adirondacks, Nanci weaves the pleasure of a snowstorm or the call of a ruby-throated hummingbird with opera and Little Richard as background while she rehabs her house and takes us on a journey of a past we need to remember. 

Heartrending as she looks back in pain to her mother’s murder and the periods without her children, she dips next deftly into Jimmy Carter’s success and the rise of Donald Trump and JD Vance, all while planning her next road trip. 

This is a deeply personal recounting of one woman’s sweet adventures and salty opinions on all she encounters. Hippie communes and environmental fears sit happily side by side with the wild and domestic inhabitants of her beloved home as the reader is taken down a country road.