Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm

by Erin Byers Murray

Book Overview

Bill Buford's Heat meets Phoebe Damrosch's Service Included in this unique blend of personal narrative, food miscellany, and history

In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to let a completely unprepared, aquaculture-illiterate food and lifestyle writer work for them for 12 months...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250032008
• ISBN13: 9781250032003
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Genre-crossing, interesting nonfiction!

It's hard to put a genre on this: it's a memoir, but also gives real facts and insight into this lifestyle, starting from the perspective of a newcomer who becomes (relatively speaking) an expert. The writing is excellent and brings to mind Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.