She is also the author of the acclaimed adult memoir Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn. Since then, the author has written six children’s books, including The Perfect Nest, a hilarious read-aloud illustrated by John Manders and two books in Candlewick’s Brand New Readers series.
She studied economics, but because of her love for books and stories, she eventually found herself drawn to writing. She was slightly shy as a child, but enjoyed playing beauty parlor with her sister, taking family trips, and watching Star Trek and Time Tunnel.
She read so much her parents had to set a “no-reading-at-the dinner-table” rule. Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine and Melissa’s trials of “getting back to the land.” It is also a coming-of (middle)-age story of a woman trying to cross the divide between who she is and who she wants to be, and the story of a couple who say “goodbye city life” and learn more than they ever bargained for about love, land, and yes, sheep sex.Catherine Friend had what she calls a “boring” childhood, but she says that boring was just fine-because it gave her more time to read. What ensues is a crash course in both living off and with the land that ultimately allows Catherine to help fulfill Melissa’s dreams while not losing sight of her own. When self-confessed “urban bookworm” Catherine Friend’s partner of twelve years decides she wants to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a farm, Catherine agrees. I was there with my partner Melissa, the woman I’d lived with for twelve years, because we were going to start a farm.
This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabees for a class on the basics of raising sheep. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles.
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