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Pig years
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Pig years
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xvii, 209 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont-living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures-Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city with her long-distance boyfriend, Gaydos recognizes her role in cycles bigger than herself. Yearning to be a mother, she recognizes, too, how new life is mirrored in everything that surrounds her: livestock, full moons, endless acres of green that seem to blossom overnight. But there's tragedy on the farms as well: fields gone barren, opioid addiction, and animals meeting their end too soon. While small farms struggle to survive in the face of industrial operations, low wages, and loneliness, Gaydos takes us into a violent and gorgeous world where pigs are turned into star-bright symbols of hope, and beauty surfaces in the furrows, the sow, and the slaughter"--
Contents:
Prologue: Gumdrop -- First bloom. New Lebanon -- Mating-- Springs -- Brother Sun, Sister Moon -- Go, pigs, go -- Turning stone green. Planting in the Quarry Town -- Luke -- Red, white, & blue -- The size of everything -- Thunder road -- The funeral -- Days of harvest. The eve of destruction -- Summer's solstice -- Machine work -- Fairgrounds -- Guardian angels -- Fattening -- The reaping -- Returns -- Winter. Solstice -- A new year -- March -- Epilogue: Spring again.
Publication Info:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Subject:
Agriculture -- Vermont -- Biography.
Farm life -- Vermont.
Gaydos, Ellyn
Farming
Husbandry
Rural life
SAILS ISBN:
9780593318959