"Coop" by Michael Perry

Michael Perry introduces his latest book, "Coop."

Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with 37 acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox past (raised in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect by city-bred parents who took in over 100 foster children) for clues as to how he should proceed as a farmer and a parent.

Whether describing his family (I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon) or what its like to be bitten in the butt while wrassling a pig (two firsts in one day), Coop is filled with the humor Perrys readers expect, but in the course of a year in which the birth of his child is balanced by the death of a dear friend and worse, he also writes from the quieter corners of his heart.

Alternately hilarious, tender, and real as pigs in mud, Coop is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaningand with chickens.

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[1Indianadude]

I was hoping to find something on him on youtube! He's coming to Indiana in a few months. It's hard for me to put his books down once I get my paws on them

[Shitkoolie]

Coop is really a good read! It is fun to read "into" it also. Michael is great in the way Ed Abbey was, tells a good story and has a good feel for life and it shows.

[penelopedia]

Michael - looking forward to seeing you tonight in Northfield and can't wait to read the new book.

[dwarvenfriend]

Micheal! Get out of the Midwest and come out to the West! Missoula, Montana would love to here from you. I can't wait for your new book!