Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting finds Perry faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields. Plus, his pregnant wife informs him that she intends to deliver their baby at home. Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.
Perry’s trademark humor rings through—when his parents fostered more than sixty children on their farm—or being bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig.
From quieter corners in his heart, he chronicles joy at the birth of his child. He also shares the devastation of a dear friend’s death. Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud. Coop suffuses a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning . . . and with chickens.
“Lovely passages and insights. . . . You’ll find in this book a slender silver cord of smart contemplation about meaning and purpose.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
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