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The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love
Kristin Kimball
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Paperback, 287 pages; 2011 (2010)
$15.00
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While the title of this book may not seem appropriate reading for a literary woman like you or me, the subtitle clears up the situation: This is a book on "farming, food, and love." And these are wonderful subjects. Even city dwellers can enjoy this autobiographical account by Harvard graduate Kristin Kimball, who started her career as a freelance writer working in the publishing world and then went on to become a farmer. Of course, it didn't just happen. Kimball went to interview a young farmer, who quickly became the love of her life. Transforming herself from a sophisticated yuppie to a hands-on farmworker, Kimball moved to five hundred acres in upstate New York, where she and her husband worked hard and raised food for themselves and to sell to their community. Kimball describes Essex Farm, her charming husband, and their life together with humor and passion. She almost tempts me to become a farmer, too!
A Reader Review by Johanna Hurwitz of Great Neck, New York
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