Goat Song

A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

By Brad Kessler
(Scribner Book Company, Hardcover, 9781416560999, 239pp.)

Publication Date: June 2009

Categories: General, Personal Memoirs

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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the July 2009 Indie Notables
“When writer Brad Kessler and his photographer wife leave successful Manhattan lives for the country to raise goats and make cheese, the adventure begins. And what an adventure it is. I loved this book!”
-- Jackie Blem, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO


Description
Brad Kessler's novel "Birds in Fall" won the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was named by the "Los Angeles Times" one of the top ten books of the year. He is the author of another novel, "Lick Creek," and his non-fiction has appeared in numerous publications including "The New Yorker, The Nation, Kenyon Review, "and "Bomb." Kessler is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Whiting Writer's Award. He lives with his wife, the photographer Dona Ann McAdams, in Vermont, where they raise a small herd of dairy goats and produce cheese.