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Pig years

Pig years

Book 2022

"As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont -- living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures -- Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city with her long-distance boyfriend, Gaydos recognizes her role in cycles bigger than herself. Yearning to be a mother, she recognizes, too, how new life is mirrored in everything that surrounds her: livestock...