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A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don’t mix.At her husband’s prompting, suburban mom and New York career woman Susan McCorkindale agreed to give up her stressful six-figure job. Together, they headed down south to a 500-acre beef farm, and never looked back. Well, he didn’t look back. She did. A lot.From playing “spot the religious billboard” on the drive to rural Virginia, to adapting to a world without Starbucks, to planning bright-orange hunter-resistant wardrobes for the kids (“We moved here to get away from the madness of Manhattan only to risk getting popped on our own property”), this is her hilarious account of how a city girl came to love—or at least tolerate—country life.
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I have secretly always wanted to live on a farm. I crossed paths with this little book at the free book place in the city (a magical place full of wonder) and since it was free I took it home and read it immediately. I'm almost sorry I wasted my time. I found the author shallow and not very likable. The footnotes were extremely distracting and not amusing at all. The jokes were way overused...how many times did I read the Starbucks line–I lost count after 15.