![]() ![]() Kimball throws herself into both the farm and all it entails and into her relationship with Mark. ![]() Kimball doesn’t glamourize farm life – it’s here in its grimy detail of early mornings and hard physical labour – but her clear love for the farm (as unexpected as it may be) gives the story a more appealing edge. Not just an organic farm but one using as traditional methods as possible, including horses rather than tractors and other machinery. The Dirty Life follows roughly the first year of Kristin and Mark’s relationship, leading up to their wedding, and covering their first year of starting their own farm. She’s out of place on his farm and surprised to find herself drawn to both Mark and his way of life. Kimball is a journalist in New York City when she interview Mark, an independent and charismatic farmer. I was pleasantly surprised by Kristin Kimball’s tale of farm life however. ![]() ![]() My friend also happens to be a little more of a hippy than I am and I wasn’t sure I was interested in reading a farming story. I don’t read a lot of memoirs and it’s rare that they appeal to me. When a friend loaned me a copy of The Dirty Life I wasn’t that excited. The Dirty Life – Kristin Kimball (Scribner, 2010) ![]()
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