Can't say enough good things about Michael Perry. Every book he writes is a combination of humor, sentiment, raw emotion, and wit. Maybe Im inflating his ego a bit too much here.. Listened to the audio version on my way back to Wisconsin and he included a song for his nephew at the end which made me pull over on the side of I 55 because I was crying so hard. This book was a wild roller coaster of emotion from quiet chuckling to conversations with my husband about his own experiences with cattle and pigs (and why he hates them). To loud gaffaws when he told the story about leaving his farm to the chicken sitter, to grief with the story of his nephew and then back up to self inspection. Perry writes his books with honesty and I think that's why I like him so much. So Michael keep writing stories about your childhood. Like your daughter, we love hearing them.