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Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn
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by Catherine Friend


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Farms have fences. People have boundaries. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabees for a class on the basics of raising sheep. I was there with my partner Melissa, the woman I'd lived with for twelve years, because we were going to start a farm . When self-confessed "urban bookworm" Catherine Friend's partner of twelve years decides she wants to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a farm, Catherine agrees. What ensues is a crash course in both living off and with the land that ultimately allows Catherine to help fulfill Melissa's dreams while not losing sight of her own. Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine and Melissa's trials of "getting back to the land." It is also a coming-of (middle)-age story of a woman trying to cross the divide between who she is and who she wants to be, and the story of a couple who say "goodbye city life" -- and learn more than they ever bargained for about love, land, and yes, sheep sex.

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Farms have fences.

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  • Title Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn
  • Author Catherine Friend
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 254
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Lifelong Books, New York
  • Date 2006-03-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781569242988 / 1569242984
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005037255
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2006, Page 14
  • Lambda Book Report, 06/01/2006, Page 21
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2014, Page 40
  • New York Times, 07/09/2006, Page 19

About the author

Catherine Friend is the author of Hit by a Farm and The Compassionate Carnivore, as well as several children's books and novels. She farms in Minnesota with her partner of twenty-eight years.
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