Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life

Brett hangs meditations of farm life, observations on biology and botany, and musings about the modern world on this Joycean structure. His writing is so vivid, the observations so telling, that a reader can virtually feel the smooth heft of a collected egg in the palm of a hand or hear the goofy, honking dawn call of the peacock. “The world is a constant astonishment,” he writes. “Rain show more in a storm – each drop pounding so hard against the pond surface that the water reaches back up like a fist threatening the sky.” show less