Roughneck Grace : Farmer Yoga, Creeping Codgerism, Apple Golf, and Other Brief Essays from on and off the Back Forty (Paperback)

from Mrsmommybooknerd

Perry does it again! He never disappoints when it comes to his writing. He is a go to writer when you want to be connected to the best parts of yourself and you want to laugh. He writes in a way that makes you self reflect and to be carrrird away in his stories. Brilliant, as always.

from JmGallen

"Roughneck Grace" is a collection of author Michael Perry's articles in the Sunday Wisconsin State Journal. Perry lives on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin on which he lives with his family, raises his chickens, writes and from which he heads out on book tours. Each article is two pages, more or ...

from rolyat

Roughneck Grace is a collection of short essays about the authors life. Michael Perry can take something as mundane as talking to the neighbor by the mailbox and make it fascinating and funny. I smiled the whole way thru this book. It is also amazing that Perry can write from every aspect of his ...

from endaclon

I am reviewing this title for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Roughneck Grace might be considered a meditation on life from a man raised with values common to midwestern rural life; at least common fifty odd years ago. In all of these short vignettes the idea of making one's own way, assuming respo...

from 1Randal

Once again, Michael Perry amazes me with his wisdom. Couched in an "ah-shucks, who me" lingo, he imparts more meaning in his observations than most authors can only dream of. Amazing!