'Rurally Screwed': On Finding An Honest Life Away From The City

Martha Woodroof — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:05:00 +0000

Jessie Knadler is the thirty-something author of Rurally Screwed: My Life Off The Grid With the Cowboy I Love (Berkley Hardcover).

I like her immediately as she strides in the door at WMRA, the Shenandoah Valley public radio station that kindly employs me. There she is, short and slight as two seconds; still got this big-city, offhand glamour and presence going six years out of Manhattan. She's "bring 'em on" without any silly bravado.

It's no wonder. This speck of a woman has hands-on experience killing chickens.