The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir

"Kilmer-Purcell fertilizes this narrative until it reeks of charm." -- New York Times "Enter 60 goats and homemade soap, apple-picking and an heirloom vegetable garden. Hilarity follows. And trouble. But let's not spoil the party. It's fun." -- USA Today "The Bucolic Plague has something different to offer-if we can do it anyone can, it tells us, provided we can laugh at ourselves." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Side-splitting." -- Wall Street Journal "A hilarious memoir." -- Whole Living "The witty new memoir from Josh Kilmer-Purcell." -- Food & Wine, Online Review "Always entertaining and often moving." -- The Stranger (Seattle) "Baby goats, diarrhea, and Martha Stewart. Former drag queen turned goat farmer Josh Kilmer-Purcell begins his latest book, The Bucolic Plague, with a hilarious vignette involving all three. Clearly, the man has an interesting story to tell." -- Wisconsin State Journal "Kilmer-Purcell writes with dramatic flair and trenchant wit, uncovering mirthful metaphors as he plows through their daily experiences." -- Publishers Weekly "This particular merging of city and country is both sweet and savory." -- Kirkus Reviews "I adore the Beekman boys' story. Their unlikely story of love, the land, and a herd of goats is hilariously honest. If these two can go from Manhattan to a goat farm in upstate New York, then I can't help feeling there is hope for us all." -- Alice Waters "I gobbled up this book like...well, like goat cheese on a cracker. Kilmer-Purcell's genius lies in his ability to blindside the reader with heart-wrenching truths in the midst of the most outlandish scenarios. He makes you laugh until you care." -- Armistead Maupin "A delicious book about two city boys who buy a farm, fall in love with a herd of goats, and attempt to revive the American dream... Never has mucking out a stall been more scintillating!" -- Alison Smith, author of Name All the Animals "My Amtrak seat mate in the Quiet Car, a complete stranger, insisted that I read out loud the scene -- a goat in labor -- that was making me laugh so hard I was crying... Kilmer-Purcell's book is manically funny, sweetly open and trusting, and slick and snarky." -- New York Times Book Review