My review of Michael Perry’s “Coop” is up now on the Christian Science Monitor’s books page. The book is subtitled “A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting,” which covered a remarkably large percentage of my own interests in seven words.
Perry’s website calls him a humorist, and the publicity materials stressed the book’s slapstick elements — or they seemed to me to be stressed; anytime you talk about things like getting bitten in the rear by a pig, I suppose they’re going to seem outsized. The book turned out, though, to have a hefty thread of seriousness and sadness running through it along with all the jokes and pleasure and joys. That would make it a lot like real life, just more self-aware and sharply observed than most. It’s worth a read even if you’ve never craved a pen of backyard chickens. Full review here.
Posted by Rebekah Denn under Book Reviews
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