A lot of things that don't normally make me tear up have been causing some flow lately, so who knows what's happening there, but this book jerked some tears in several places. In the back, someone calls Perry a memoirist. I guess. This book is partly about his childhood, interspersed with his first year living on a farm in Wisconsin with his wife, stepdaughter and new baby girl. And two pigs and many chickens. I like the honest way Perry describes rural life and the people he knows. It's good to read about someone who finds he meets a lot of good people he likes. I think if you are the kind of person who is looking to meet good people you like, you will, in fact, meet those kind of people. At the end, I also wanted to move to a farm, but that happens every other month of so, anyway.