{"product_id":"pig-years-9780593318959","title":"Pig Years","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis captivating memoir is a “startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals” (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of\u003ci\u003e All the Light We Cannot See), \u003c\/i\u003eas an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePig Years\u003c\/i\u003e catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as “engrossing” and “a marvel.” As a farmer in Upstate New York and Vermont, Ellyn Gaydos lives on the knife edge between loss and gain. Her debut memoir draws us into this precarious world, conjuring with stark simplicity the lifeblood of the farm: its livestock and stark full moons, the sharp cold days lives near to the land. Joy and tragedy are frequent bedfellows. Fields go barren and animals meet their end too soon, but then their bodies become food in a time-old human ritual. Seasonal han","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525783822679,"sku":"9780593318959","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780593318959.jpg?v=1731861765","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pig-years-9780593318959","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}