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A magazine editor in New York, Jessie Knadler had a habit of always looking over her shoulder for better options. She wasn’t quite sure moving to Montana and marrying a cowboy was a better option—but, head over heels in love, she did it anyway.
At a loss in her new rural environment, she hoped that activities like chicken farming and fence building might provide her with a more profound, virtuous sense of self (and make her husband Jake love her even more). It all led her to some strange situations—and surprising realizations. Written with huge personality and searing wit, Rurally Screwed is an immensely entertaining and moving memoir about the things we do for love—and the lengths we’ll go to find our true identity.
- Sales Rank: #782905 in Books
- Published on: 2013-04-02
- Released on: 2013-04-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.22" h x .86" w x 5.50" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
Review
“A tale at once hilarious and touching.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“A memoir of nitty-gritty adjustments, of the Herculean personal growth demanded with a committed partnership…A memoir with unexpected, unpretentious—and very funny—heft; the story of a young woman who drives herself so hard for a couple of decades that she neglects to notice who she is. Then, after an interlude spent raising chickens, canning, sewing her own clothes, attempting Bible study and overthinking almost everything about rural life, the young woman gets real.”—NPR.org
“Rurally Screwed is really about trying to define ourselves, and how that experience can make us feel authentic and synthetic all at once. Knadler articulates her journey in a manner so self-deprecating and hilarious that it doesn't take long to realize she isn't ridiculing rural Virginia, she’s analyzing her own place in it...She is braver than most writers would be about exposing the vulnerable underbelly of her new marriage, and about how close she came to throwing in the clogs. The story is at times very raw, and embarrassingly personal in a way that will feel familiar to many readers. Knadler risks a lot, even the wrath of people she could still potentially meet in the aisles of the Lexington Walmart. Though she probably felt as if she was gambling it all with Rurally Screwed, the result is a story so genuine and touching that she won it all back—and then some.”—The Roanoke Times
"Jessie Knadler's story about leaving the glossy office buildings and late nights of Manhattan to take a chance on love and create a new life in rural Lexington, Virginia, sounds like something out of a movie. But as Rurally Screwed shows, the most unexpected life events and happiest endings—not to mention the hottest cowboys—don't just appear on the silver screen. Jessie takes a lively, self-deprecating yet thoughtful approach to her particular fish-out-of-water tale. I laughed, winced and nodded my head in agreement more times than I can count. But most important, she shows that risks have their rewards, that it is possible to leave the worst of one's old life behind without abandoning the best of oneself."—Anna Holmes, founder of Jezebel
“Jessie Knadler’s memoir, Rurally Screwed…is more than a fast-paced ride through the rodeo scene of relationships from Manhattan to Montana, but an examination of American life, the things we take for granted and the things we ought to cherish. Reading about Knadler’s search for inner peace helped this reader find some too.”—Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone
“Hilarious, romantic and real. Jessie Knadler’s writing made me feel every single emotion of her journey from the big city to the deep country—only I didn’t have to kill a single chicken or ride an actual horse. Although I may have fallen in love with her husband a little bit...”—Lara Naaman, writer/producer, Good Morning America
“At once brutally honest and over-the-top hilarious, Rurally Screwed is the most engaging and relatable book about marriage I've ever read. And I've read most of them. Knadler takes readers on a journey from her stalled life as a New York City single girl to the wilds of Virginia, where she settles down with a cowboy, eighty-some chickens and a cellar stocked with moonshine. Along the way, she learns there's nothing romantic about chopping firewood and nothing easy about being married—but that after the sweat dries, the rewards of both are pretty awesome. Anyone who is married, has ever been married or is considering one day getting married has to read this book.”—Paula Szuchman, coauthor of It's Not You, It's the Dishes
"This book is really a love story. It’s about falling for an unexpected person, learning to love a new place, and when life gets tough, figuring out what the heart really wants. I started out laughing and ended with a lump in my throat. And because the tale is told with such humor and searing honesty, you’ll grow so attached to Jessie and Jake, you’ll be tempted to move off the grid with them.”—Amy Spencer, author of Bright Side Up
“I found myself laughing out loud…I also found myself feeling empathetic, understanding the heart-wrenching separation and frustrations that come with coupledom…This book was an inspiring and fun read. It’s a book that all women can relate to, even if they aren’t leaving behind the big city for Green Acres. Jessie, as a character in the book and in real life, is a strong, witty, courageous and hilarious woman.”—Breathe
“Most romantic comedies end at the declaration of love and never explore the happily ever after. Rurally Screwed entertains by continuing well past the ‘I do’ and, best of all, this is a real-life romance, a memoir with a hilarious narrator…Rurally Screwed is also a hero's journey as Jessie navigates her relationship with various identities—a child from Montana, a woman from New York, a wife in rural Virginia. Her searing wit and unflinching honesty is a pleasure to read…Fans of Ree Drummond's The Pioneer Woman will love Rurally Screwed, as will anyone who has fallen madly in love with his or her opposite.”—Book Club Classics
“[A] classic pastoral narrative…What makes it compelling is the manner in which [Jessie] struggles with her identity, as defined almost entirely by external markers. Her journey takes her from a place where the only identity she knows is the one on the outside to a place where she learns to inhabit a more genuine self from the inside. Perhaps it's simply a story of growing up, but in a world in which the Internet has only amplified the ferocity of the fashion cycles, the urgency of lifestyle choices, one can't help feeling for her as she finds it so very difficult to define herself in a world she can't quite recognize.”—Bookslut
"Quirky, laugh-out-loud funny, poignant, passionate...A great love story that carries on past 'I Do' and 'Happily Ever After.'"—San Francisco Book Review
About the Author
Jessie Knadler is a writer whose articles and stories have appeared in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Glamour. She is the coauthor of the preserving cookbook Tart and Sweet. Her blog has been featured in Newsweek and French Elle. She lives with her husband, her daughter, and a bunch of chickens in Virginia.
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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
Annoying main character, Unsatisfying ending
By JessHB
I don't usually leave reviews because I generally agree with the consensus of other reviews. However, I think this book has a way too favorable overall review. The story started out okay. However, the second half was torturously slow. The main character was constantly whining about everything and not communicating her feelings to her husband. It was really frustrating to "watch" this woman with little or no self-awareness get in the way of her own happiness. The worst part is that in the end I don't think she ever really "got it". She seemed to be placated by circumstances and distracted from her feelings. I just don't think she ever reached the point of being comfortable in her skin the way her husband is. As a result the book was an uncomfortable and unsatisfying read. I am tired of reading about women with no sense of self who passively act as if they are victims of circumstance and fail to see their role in creating their problems.
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Not just another "look at my new life in the country" book
By Meghan K. White
I purchased the Kindle version of this book on a whim. I knew that the author was a blogger, so I checked out her site. She seemed funny, quick, sarcastic and smart. I thought the book would provide for some light plane reading as I readied for a long trip. While the book is indeed witty, it is so much more. It really speaks to any woman who has made big changes in her life for a man and keeps looking back over her shoulder questioning herself, her decisions, her partner, her "new" life. The depths and insights in this book begin to unveil themselves in the final 50 pages. The book made me laugh for 100 pages, made me think (really hard) for 50 pages and made me cry for 20 pages or so. In the end, I felt that I could really relate to the author even though I reside in suburbia, have not ridden a horse since I was 10 and my gardening is limited to herbs on the patio. Mostly, this is a funny insightful book about life's big decisions, our changing identities as the years march on and how we can learn to accept ourselves at each stage.
33 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
I just didn't like her...
By sherry Fowler
I made myself plow through this book till the end--no pun intended--and with every page I kept asking myself,"what's keeping me from enjoying this book?" Well, the reason became pretty clear. The author may be too hard on herself. The book is intended to try and share her perspective on her radical shift in lifestyle with her reader, I get that. Problem is that she chose everything to which she was "subjected". Her misery was completely self imposed so the book comes across as one long whine. Trying to be generous, I kept reminding myself that from the start, the author did not describe a personality type that I would find it easy to click with. Her conviction that her thoughts, attitudes and values are completely superior to anyone else's became tiresome. There is never any real explanation of WHY the author feels she is so much more enlightened than every other character, just a giant ode to ego from page to page.I just couldn't like her and I couldn't get interested in what she thought about things and why she thought that way. It stayed that way until the very last chapter, actually the last HALF of the last chapter. That's when the writer allowed us to see a person with some values, and for the first time in the entire book, she became someone interesting to read. Reading the last chapter, I became intrigued. I wanted to know how a couple of scenarios would play out, her preparations for another life-changing event were engaging and I wanted to know how she would cope with some big challenges. I LIKED her and I don't understand why she waited til the last ten pages to show the reader someone who can capture our attention.
Maybe that is her whole point, that it took her so long to allow herself the personal growth that she had obstinately been blocking, even though she had sought it. Her navel gazing was so persistent that she almost lost the opportunity. Perhaps that's the message she tries to get across "If the life you have is so devoid of what you're looking for, don't keep carrying the baggage that makes it that way. Open yourself to the new journey that you chose and give it a chance." Not sure, but the reader should keep on soldiering through, the last chapter reveals a person that I would enjoy knowing.
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