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Contains short fiction and essays that illustrate the impact of modern factory farms - confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) - on a rural Michigan community. This work takes readers into this landscape of modern rural communities to experience the smells, sounds, and sights of a brutally changed world.
"This is an important book. It is a fine blend of fact and fiction, breathtaking in its inventiveness and memorable in its careful attention to the territory of the heart. Kauffman knows her characters as if they were living next door, and they may well be." - Michael Delp, co-editor of the Made in Michigan Writers Series"
Janet Kauffman is professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of three books of short stories, Characters on the Loose, Obscene Gestures for Women, and Places in the World a Woman Could Walk, which won the Rosenthal Award from the Academy - Institute of Arts and Letters; three novels in the trilogy Flesh Made Word: Collaborators, The Body in Four Parts, and Rot; and four collections of poems, including The Weather Book, which was an AWP Award Series Selection, and Five on Fiction.