by Erin Napier
First published 2019
Erin Napier started writing a daily online journal to focus on positive moments and count her blessings. She documented life in her small Mississippi town, never imagining a television producer would discover her writing and launch her family into fame. This memoir reveals the personal story behind the popular HGTV series Home Town. Napier describes how she and her husband Ben transformed their struggling community by combining his carpentry abilities with her design talents. The book includes family photographs and Erin's hand-painted artwork alongside previously untold stories about their relationship and renovation projects. Napier shows how they rebuilt their town's Main Street through community effort and authentic connections. She argues that small-town life offers as much possibility as people choose to create, and that ordinary moments contain magic when viewed with the right perspective.
Genres: family-life, memoir, biography-memoir
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, personal-growth
Setting: Mississippi, Main Street
Period: 21st-century
Unknown Binding · Gallery Books