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Summary
The hilarious follow-up to the memoir, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl .
It's been four years since Susan's husband dragged her kicking and screaming from their comfortable, big city East Coast life to a farm in Virginia cattle country. Susan's adjusting as best she can, which isn't easy considering she's been known to wear Manolos in manure. She'll never be a real farm girl, but as readers will see from her side- splitting confessions, she's faking it just fine.
Author Notes
Susan McCorkindale, a former marketing director at Family Circle, is now a freelance advertising copywriter in the wilds of Virginia. But she still loves the New York Giants, Bruce Springsteen, and the Jersey Shore.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Former New York City marketing executive McCorkindale continues her chronicle of adjusting to life on a Virginia cattle ranch in this comic memoir. The follow-up to Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl includes more madcap farming adventures with escaped livestock, country fashions, and pig shopping. Though occasionally marred by manic delivery and unnecessary crudeness, all are told in the author's self-deprecating and funny style. This second memoir is grounded by the author's husband's diagnosis of terminal cancer. Unexpectedly, the book's mood does not darken after this revelation. Instead, in the same very personal, very honest voice that characterizes her lighter passages, she shares how the ridiculous, the annoying, and the sublime are interwoven against the stark reality of his illness. It is this honesty and her bravery in the face of paralyzing fear that readers will admire. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
McCorkindale's follow-up to Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl (2008), about morphing from a top-notch marketing director at Family Circle magazine into a farm wife ensconced on a 500-acre beef-cattle farm in Virginia, offers short, witty chapters on such topics as psychotic chickens who dig up window boxes and the myriad snakes that mysteriously appear every spring. The sequel broaches an entirely different matter in which McCorkindale attempts to find humor, too her husband's battle with newly discovered pancreatic cancer. Never one to understand the appeal of the outdoors, this indoor girl suddenly finds herself responsible for running the farm, with a little help from her two young sons and a willing batch of compassionate friends. Feeling like a failure at Caregiving 101, she nevertheless manages to navigate countless trips to the hospital for chemo treatments, administer pain medications that never quite do the trick, and dabble in alternative treatments like flaxseed-infused cottage cheese. Somehow remaining upbeat, she and her sons soon realize that, while cancer changes it, the family will survive.--Donovan, Deborah Copyright 2010 Booklist
Table of Contents
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Part 1 Sleepless in Sticksville | |
| Cluckster's Last Stand | p. 7 |
| Staying Abreast in the Boonies | p. 14 |
| Runaround Sue | p. 18 |
| When It Rains, It Paws | p. 29 |
| Dressed to Kill | p. 34 |
| Who Says You Can't Go Home? | p. 42 |
| The Cowpoke Wore Prada | p. 51 |
| Brumfield Follies | p. 55 |
| The Land the Takeout Taxi Forgot | p. 63 |
| Cock-a-Doodle Sue | p. 69 |
| Jeremiah Was a Peeping Tom | p. 79 |
| Supermodel Suzy | p. 87 |
| Part 2 The Counterfeit Farm Girl Gets Real (Counterfeit Farm Girl Style, Of Course) | |
| Calves' Heads and Black Snakes and Groundhogs. Oh, My! | p. 99 |
| Coming around to Country | p. 107 |
| The Mother of All Realities | p. 122 |
| There Oughta Be a Pill | p. 118 |
| Death by Family Time | p. 122 |
| Ah, the Wonders That Await Me in My Whirlpool | p. 126 |
| Suzy Soprano | p. 130 |
| Star of Stage, Screen, and Livestock Exchange | p. 141 |
| My Birthday Means Jack | p. 145 |
| Ain't No Way to Treat the Ladies | p. 153 |
| It's Okay, Phil. You'll Get My Bill | p. 160 |
| Just Another Blue-gened Boy | p. 166 |
| Jammin'with the Jonas Brothers | p. 178 |
| Swan Lake? Not So Much. But Swan Pond Sounds about Right | p. 183 |
| Forbidden in Fauquier | p. 190 |
| Christmas in Cow Country (Or, Suburbanites Deck the Halls, Farm Folk Deck the Heifers) | p. 200 |
| You Say You Want a Resolution | p. 203 |
| Part 3 Will Farm for Love | |
| Will Farm for Love | p. 211 |
| I'd Like to Have a Word | p. 214 |
| Failing Caregiving 101 | p. 227 |
| Drawing the Line at the Leech | p. 236 |
| Please Don't Squeeze the Stinkbugs | p. 240 |
| The Guilt Is in the Mail(box) | p. 251 |
| Nailing the New Normal | p. 255 |
| Looking for Dick in All the Wrong Places | p. 264 |
| Needy and Not Proud of It | p. 277 |
| Puzzled by Kudzu? Me, Too | p. 281 |
| One Cholecystectomy, Three ERCPs, and Six Dead Chickens Later... | p. 285 |
| I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas Tree. Not | p. 290 |
| Is That a Poinsettia in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Glad to See Me? | p. 299 |
| Cock-a-Doodle Sue, Part Two | p. 306 |
| Jailbird in a Scruffy Blue Bath Towel | p. 311 |
| Putting My Faith in the Funny Stuff | p. 322 |
| Part 4 Epilogue | |
| 500 Acres and No Place to Hide | p. 331 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 349 |