The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

"This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer."

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