CoopIn over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Population: 485 gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhousefaced with thirty seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at homeMichael Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood for clues to how to proceed as a

wedding planning often turns into family arguments

Packed with colourful anecdotes

relaxing summer on the beach

and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless

traces her own history back to a modern-day castle that could hold the truth about her past

when the weather was bitterly cold and her water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office

author of Reviving Opehlia

the World’s Longest Dachshund

It's a small town just like any other

Meet the Creed brothers

The stories she shares range from the heartwarming to the shocking and tragic

In this dark and twisted coming-of-age thriller