Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone Nature Classics)

A Times Literary Supplement and Globe and Mail Book of the YearWinner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Canadian Non-Fiction Prize“A wonderful meditation on farm life and by extension life itself … told intelligently and often humorously, by a writer with a welcome fresh sharp eye.”-Peter Matthiessen, author of Shadow Country and The Snow LeopardIn this new special edition of a beloved rural memoir, a farmer’s intimate bond with his land and animals reveals hard-won truths about trauma, endurance, and belonging. From the straining of muscles at dawn chores to the last check of the animals under a darkening sky, Brian Brett brings readers along as he moves through a day on his farm, tending to animals, soil, and machinery while reckoning with the quiet weight of trauma that saturates the land. Both an unflinching memoir and an irreverent natural history of the small mixed farm, Trauma Farm wanders backward and forward in time, from childhood chores to present scars, from ancient Babyl