From a writer who traded her single life in the big city to marry a farmer, this is a true story of about falling in love with a man and with a different way to live, complete with runaway piglets and dew-fresh lettuce, sceptical locals and a wedding in a hayloft.
Before becoming a farmer, Kristen Kimball graduated from Harvard University and worked as a freelance writer, writing teacher, and an assistant to a literary agent in New York City. Since 2003, she and her husband have run Essex Farm in the Adirondacks, where they live with their two young daughters.
In her beguiling memoir, Kimball describes the complex truth about
the simple life in prose that is observant and lyrical, yet
tempered by a farmer's lack of sentimentality ... This is a
grown-up love story about falling in love twice, with a man and
with the land, and learning how to devote oneself fully to both
*Elle (US)*
[An] inspiring adventure of losing her heart to a man and the
land.
*Vogue, Required Reading*
The Dirty Life is passionate, inspiring, and well written, a
page-turner for anyone who has ever dreamed of settling into a very
different way of life... Captivating.
*Irish Times*
This frank, funny account doesn't shy away from the back-breaking
labour... Yet the book also celebrates moments of sheer
happiness.
*The Lady*
This memoir combines the histories of two love affairs: one with
the land, and one with [...] a man.
*Independent*
If you want to understand the heart and soul of the new/old
movement towards local food, this is the book you need. It's the
voice of what comes next in this land, of the generation unleashed
by Wendell Berry to do something really grand. A wonderfully told
tale
*Bill McKibben*
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