Farmer's Almanac cracks open America's rural core to reveal moments of stark beauty and cruelty-a Midwestern Gothic. An imaginary handbook for rural living as timeless and essential as its namesake. But this is no American pastoral. Fink's vision is more Orwell than Rockwell. Farmer's Almanac reports the news from mythical Odette County, Wisconsin, where the milk prices keep falling, and the forecast is not good.
Now includes a foreword by Bonnie Jo Campbell!
Chris Fink is a professor at Beloit College in Wisconsin, wherehe teaches literature, creative writing, and journalism. He is the 2020 Society of Midland Authors award winner, author of Add This to the List of Things That You Are and editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the novels Once Upon a River and Q Road. Her critically acclaimed short fiction collections include American Salvage, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award; Women and Other Animals, which won the AWP Prize for Short Fiction; and Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.