01910cam a2200337 i 4500 562075136 TxAuBib 20220623120000.0 211103s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021038086 9780593318959 $27.00 0593318951 $27.00 TxAuBib rda Gaydos, Ellyn,. Pig years / Ellyn Gaydos. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. xvii, 209 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. "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. 20220630. Gaydos, Ellyn. Agriculture Vermont Biography. Farm & Ranch Life Vermont. Gardening. Animal. BTCLS