Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781569242988)

Farms have fences. People have boundaries. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabees for a class on the basics of raising sheep. I was there with my partner Melissa, the woman I'd lived with for twelve years, because we were going to start a farm . When self-confessed "urban bookworm" Catherine Friend's partner of twelve years decides she wants to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a farm, Catherine agrees. What ensues is a crash course in both living off and with the land that ultimately allows Catherine to help fulfill Melissa's dreams while not losing sight of her own. Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine and Melissa's trials of "getting back to the land." It is also a coming-of (middle)-age story of a woman trying to cross the divide between who she is and who she wants to be, and the story of a couple who say "goodbye city life" -- and learn more than they ever bargained for about love, land, and yes, sheep sex.

Author: Catherine Friend
ISBN-10: 1569242984
ISBN-13: 9781569242988
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2006
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: Triangle Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2006 pg. 114
Booklist 04/15/2006 pg. 14
New York Times 07/09/2006 pg. 19
Lambda Book Report 06/01/2006 pg. 21
Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 40