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Author Gaydos, Ellyn, author.

Title Pig years / Ellyn Gaydos.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  630.9743 GAYDOS    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  630.1 GAY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  630.9743 GAY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  630.9743 GAYDOS    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  630.9743 GAY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  630.9743 GAYDOS    Missing
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  630.9743 GAYDOS    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  B GAYDOS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 209 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Author's note -- Prologue: gumdrop -- New Lebanon -- Mating -- Springs -- Brother sun, sister moon -- Go, pigs, go -- Planting in the quarry town -- Luke -- Red, white, & blue -- The size of everything -- Thunder road -- The funeral -- The eve of destruction -- Summer's solstice -- Machine work -- Fairgrounds -- Guardian angels -- Fattening -- The reaping -- Returns -- Solstice -- A new year -- March -- Epilogue: spring again.
Summary "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, full moons, endless acres of green that seem to blossom overnight. But there's tragedy on the farms as well: fields gone barren, opioid addiction, and animals meeting their end too soon. While small farms struggle to survive in the face of industrial operations, low wages, and loneliness, Gaydos takes us into a violent and gorgeous world where pigs are turned into star-bright symbols of hope, and beauty surfaces in the furrows, the sow, and the slaughter."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Gaydos, Ellyn.
Agriculture -- Vermont -- Biography.
Farm life -- Vermont.
Agriculture. (OCoLC)fst00801355
Farm life. (OCoLC)fst00921052
Vermont. (OCoLC)fst01204305
Genre/Form Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780593318959 (hardcover)
0593318951 (hardcover)
9780593318966 (ebook)
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