{"product_id":"my-father-and-other-animals-how-i-took-on-the-family-farm-sam-vincent-9781760640439","title":"My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm","description":"\u003cp\u003eA moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'For any reader desiring to understand contemporary rural Australia, this entertaining and important book is a must-read ... Refreshingly honest, acutely observed, witty, lyrical and delightfully ironic, My Father and Other Animals is a pure delight.' -Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSam Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand into a woodchipper, but 'not to worry - it wasn't like that scene in Fargo or anything'. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, his life takes a new and unexpected direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether castrating calves or buying a bull - or knocking in a hundred fence posts by hand when his dad hides the post-driver - Sam's farming apprenticeship is an education in grit and shit. But there are victories, too- nurturing a fig orchard to bloom; learning to read the land; joining forces with Indigenous elders to protect a special site. Slowly, Sam finds himself thinking differently about the farm, about his father and about his relationship with both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy turns affecting, hilarious and utterly surprising, this memoir melds humour and fierce honesty in an unsentimental love letter. It's about belonging, humility and regeneration - of land, family and culture. What passes from father to son on this unruly patch of earth is more than a livelihood; it is a legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2022 Grattan Institute Prime Minister's Summer Reading List\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sam Vincent","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43174943097075,"sku":"9781760640439","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781760640439.jpg?v=1662069070","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/my-father-and-other-animals-how-i-took-on-the-family-farm-sam-vincent-9781760640439","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}