Rooster Stories: Farm-Raised Tales of Life, Love, and Motherhood (Kindle Single)

"The story of a city-to-country transplant isn't new, but Mitchael is funny enough to rejuvenate the narrative… a colorful, laugh-out-loud portrait of rural life." —Chicago Tribune

Anna Mitchael imagined she would always live in cities. Big cities. She loved the hustle and bustle, had a great job a major advertising agency and wrote fiction on the side. Then she met and fell in love with a man who lived in the country. Deep in the country.

In Rooster Stories, Mitchael (author of the novel Copygirl, forthcoming from Penguin Books) tells the hilarious, heartfelt and often breathtakingly poignant story of how she, as a young woman, learned to love life out in the middle nowhere, gave birth the “country way”—twice—and provided refuge to a gaggle of ugly chickens and one too many domineering, sex-crazed roosters (all named Kenny). Part memoir, part screed, part whatchamacall it, Rooster Stories shows that sometimes the life that makes you happiest is the one you never, ever, not-in-a-million-years imagined you’d be living.

Cover design by Hannah Perrine Mode.