As someone who loves to plant and garden and watch things grow from the earth, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Something about it, though, made me read it very slowly. I felt like I was meandering through the story. That is not to say anything negative about the writing - Gaydos does a great job in making you feel the experience along with her. I wish I had read this book while lounging on a porch swing with a large pitcher of lemonade by my side, instead of trying to fit it into small bursts of time during a busy week.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. I was hopeful that this would be a great read as someone who loved the outdoors. I found parts that I enjoyed but mostly felt that the author was trying too hard.

Pig Years
by Ellyn Gaydos
Pub Date: June 14, 2022
Knopf
Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC of this book.
* Non-fiction *Biography Memoir
In hardy, lyrical prose that recalls the agrarian writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, Gaydos asks us to bear witness to the work that sustains us all and to reconsider what we know of survival and what saves us. Pig Years is a rapturous reckoning of love, labor, and loss within a landscape given to flux.
This book is charming. I enjoyed every minute. I am a farm girl at heart.
4 stars