COOP : A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
By Michael PerryIn over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of "Truck: A Love Story" gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood--his city-bred parents took in more than a hundred foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farm--for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father. And when his daughter Amy starts asking about God, Perry is called upon to answer questions for which he's not quite prepared. He muses on his upbringing in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect and weighs the long-lost faith of his childhood against the skeptical alternative ("You cannot toss your seven-year-old a copy of "Being and Nothingness""). Whether Perry is recalling his childhood ("I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon") or what it's like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig ("two firsts in one day"), "Coop" is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend. Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud, "Coop" is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning . . . and with chickens.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 368 pages
- English
- 0061240435
- 9780061240430
About Michael Perry
michael perry (born december 16, 1964) is an american author, born and raised in new auburn, wisconsin.after childhood on a small midwestern dairy farm, pe Read More about Michael Perry
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