Okay, if you don't know what the book is about, the title is fairly misleading. The author is a fan of the Little House on the Prairie series of books and becomes obsessed with them. I guess you would call it obsessed, unless you were a writer. Then I think it becomes your next book idea.
I was a big fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books when I was young. (I had the series in paperback but I have no idea where they are now. Hmm, guess I need to ask Mom if she's seen them in the past 20 years or so.) Anyway, over about a year the author delves into all things Wilder. She re-reads not only the books in the series but almost everything she can get on the series, the author's life, the real settings of the books, cookbooks with recipes from the books - everything.
Then she goes a step further. She churns her own butter and makes a recipe from The Long Winter. That doesn't quite satisfy the obsession, so she decides to make a couple of pilgrimages to places where the Ingalls family lives. She and her long-suffering but good natured husband travel from Chicago to South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota to see what is left of the places mentioned in the book. They have varying degrees of success. Some places have reverted to prairie, but there are also replicas, similar structures moved from elsewhere and a wide spectrum of museums and memorials devoted to the books and the TV show.
I agree with the author about the TV show.
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