Rurally Screwed : My Life off the Grid with the Cowboy I Love

by Knadler, Jessie

• ISBN13: 9780425245682
• ISBN10: 0425245683
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-03
• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover

Summary

Jessie Knadler was a New York City girl, through and through. An editor for a splashy women's magazine, she splurged on Miu Miu, partied hard, lived for Kundalini yoga, and dated a man-boy whose complexion was creamier than her own. Circling the drain both personally and professionally, Jessie definitely wouldn't have described herself as "happy"; more like caustically content. Then one day, she was assigned a story about an annual rodeo in the badlands of Eastern Montana. There, she met a twenty-five-year-old bull rider named Jake. He voted Republican and read Truck Trader. He listened to Garth Brooks. He owned guns. And Jessie suddenly found herself blindsided by something with which she was painfully unfamiliar: a genuinely lovable disposition. In fact, Jake radiated such optimism and old-school gentlemanliness that Jessie impulsively ditched Manhattan for an authentic existence, and an authentic man. Almost overnight, she was canning and sewing, making jerky, chopping firewood, and raising chickens. And all the while one question was ringing in the back of her head: "What the !#*$ have I done with my life?" A hilarious true-life love story, Rurally Screwedreveals what happens to a woman who gives up everything she's ever known and wanted-job security, money, her professional network, access to decent Thai food-to live off the grid with her one true love (and dogs and horses and chickens), and asks, is it worth it? The answer comes amid war, Bible clubs, and moonshine.

Author Biography

Jessie Knadler is a writer whose articles and stories have appeared in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Glamour. She is the coauthor of the preserving cookbook Tart and Sweet. Her blog rurallyscrewed.com has been featured in Newsweek and French Elle and on Jezebel.com. She lives with her husband, her daughter, and a bunch of chickens in Lexington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. ix
The Allure of Manly Men	p. 3
Orgasm Face	p. 20
Under the Big Sky	p. 32
The Aircraft Carrier and the Party Boat	p. 51
Cowboy Up	p. 60
The Last Best Place	p. 72
Long Horns and Asphalt	p. 89
Burn the Ships	p. 107
War Bride	p. 118
The War of Northern Aggression	p. 130
Go Big or Go Home	p. 145
Dive into The Word	p. 172
I, Chicken Farmer	p. 181
Horse People	p. 201
The Cheese Incident	p. 210
Osmond Family Sing-along	p. 225
200 Hammers	p. 232
Genesis 3:16	p. 247
Queen of the County	p. 263
Moonshine on Fire	p. 279
June Born in July	p. 299
Blue Tags	p. 312
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