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"Flat Broke with Two Goats is a funny, moving and unflinchingly honest reckoning. Reduced by desperate circumstances, Jennifer and her husband find themselves living a life that echoes the hardscrabble Appalachian ways of their grandparents. This sweet miracle of a memoir tells the story of a struggling couple who have to lose their house, and just about everything else, to find home." - Tommy Hays, author of The Pleasure Was Mine"An easy read with a warm tone, like hearing from an old friend, McGaha's memoir is touching, funny, and hard to put down." - Booklist"An enjoyable back-to-the land memoir. " - Library Journal"Flat Broke with Two Goats is a brave book written in beautifully unflinching detail. McGaha lays bare the flaws in her marriage, the poor choices that led them to rock bottom and how they found their way to a new definition of home." - BookPage"You'll be alarmed, breathless, and ultimately charmed by "Flat Broke with Two Goats" because yes, it could happen to you..." - Terri Schlichenmeyer, Bookworm Sez

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About the Author

A Pushcart Prize nominee and student at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Jennifer McGaha teaches in The Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-Asheville. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, where her work has gained significant national attention. Visit her at www.jennifermcgaha.com

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Product details

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Sourcebooks (January 23, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1492655384

ISBN-13: 978-1492655381

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.5 out of 5 stars

359 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#87,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I finished this yesterday. Well, it stopped. There was no real ending. I turned the page and it was over. I was confused.This woman is a bystander to her entire life. She is beaten by her first husband and goes back, more than once. Even after being warned that he will kill her.She leaves her dying her grandmother alone in her room, while staying to watch over her. Really?She leaves all finances to her accountant husband, doesn’t notice they don’t pay taxes for 5 years, while continuing to spend money on craft beer and private schools. While living in a falling apart house they pour money into that they bought from friends. When the bank forecloses on the house, they move into a rickety shack in worse condition, and stall moving their belongings until they have to break back into their old house to reclaim what they left behind. The new house is falling apart and is infested with mice, wolf spiders, and snakes. Such a deal!She runs away, finds a better life, and then goes back to the rickety shack, filled with spiders and snakes. Because her husband asked her to come back. And maybe all that craft beer.They claim to have $4.57 in the bank, but sure drink a lot of craft beer and buy a lot of animals. They have little practical knowledge of the chickens and goats now in their care so they kill, or nearly kill, many of them. If you acknowledge you can’t measure accurately, why are you measuring out feed for your animals? This stupidity leads to one of the goats almost dying, with many expensive vet visits. She sits next to a pregnant goat for days, drinking craft beer, because she can’t add to know when the goat is due to birth. All on $4.57.This is a testimony to why some people shouldn’t have animals. It feels like a blog that was stuffed into book format. She spends hours heating then cooling water, sitting by a goat, making soap. And we get to relive every moment with her.Just buy a craft beer and do something more productive than reading this book.

While the descriptions are good,the book overall is bad. It reads like a bunch of blogs stitched together. And it does not make sense. Who gets so deeply in debt and then buys animals?! Animals are expensive! Why not work 2 or 3 jobs and buy cheap beer! Then she takes out a student loan??

If your husband is an accountant 'making six figures' and you occasionally work, how is it you end up losing your house, owing the IRS big-time, and a bucketload of state taxes? Even after moving to a dilapidated cabin (owned by relatives), and constantly saying you're flat broke ($4.57 bank balance) you're still drinking craft beer and getting your hair done??On the up side, learning about goats is interesting and some of the recipes (the author can cook!) look very tasty. Any anyone who wants to know how to use a Crock Pot to make soap, this book is for you.

If you like books about things happening TO the main character as they sit by passively, with about as much agency over their own life as a non-playable character in a video game, then this tedious and pointless work is for you. As I progressed through the book I was unsure if it was an actual memoir or a fictional memoir (a la, Moonglow by Michael Chabon). Frankly, both options seemed equally implausible: as an actual memoir, I couldn't conceive of why any publisher would think the stories were interesting enough to warrant publication; as a fictional memoir, I couldn't conceive of why anyone would have such a lackluster imagination as to waste the time to put these thoughts to paper. If the most interesting things your main character can do in the present is remember things from the past, you've written a hopelessly boring character (or, unfortunately in this case, have lived a hopelessly boring life).The author is described as a native to Appalachia. I cannot call BS loudly enough. As a native Appalachian myself, I find it completely implausible that another native Appalachian could be so unfamiliar with black snakes that an encounter with one could cause her whole world to come crashing down around her. Whether that encounter on the porch is embellished for narrative effect or betrays the author's deceptive description, I don't know...but it rings as a completely dishonest account for someone who describes herself as a native to one of the poorest and most rural areas of the United States.As for my first criticism--the vast majority of the book is about things that happened to the main character as she just lets them occur without any attempt at intervention. From the first introduction to her as a passive half stay-at-home mom/half part-time teacher who is uninvolved and uninterested in the family finances throughout the book, she rarely is the actor instead of the direct object. Whether it's the main narrative of being broke and in debt because she deferred control of the family finances to her accountant husband, to the pointless side-trek down memory lane to her abusive first husband to whom she returned time and again, to watching her current husband do farm work as she sips coffee or worries about whether they read the right information on Google, she just doesn't act in her own life. The only instances I can recall where she is the actor rather than the direct object are: 1 - deciding to order chickens (which, upon receipt, the care of the chickens promptly becomes another task deferred to David); 2 - deciding to raise goats...which again becomes a David task; and 3 - the chapter about making homemade yogurt that is an exhaustingly detailed account of someone waiting for water to heat up to 180 degrees then cool to 117 degrees...you think I joke, but the entire account takes us through the thrilling events of water slowly heating degree by degree, then back through the twists and turns of how slowly water can cool after hitting 180 degrees!! Oh, I almost forgot a 4th example--the also pointless trek to Iowa after deciding on a whim to accept a semester-long teaching position at a college, only to abandon that after being asked to by David...As to my second criticism...the only other artistic expression I can think of where the author expects their audience to endure unending pointlessness is the first Lord of the Rings movie, which served only as rising action for the next 2 movies. The way the author describes her goat's pregnancy and labor makes me think she read The Old Man and the Sea, missed the point of the story, and thought "oh, well if Hemmingway can write page after page about the fisherman not catching a fish then certainly I can write a chapter about watching my pregnant goat not give birth because I couldn't do math." The fact that so much space is dedicated to the author sitting in a barn with a book intermittently looking at her goat's vulva is a testament to how pointless this memoir is and how unnecessary it's writing and publication was. Literally for days she does nothing but sit at the barn alternating between reading and staring at goat vulva. And writes about every...single...day. Then, in the ultimate show of the author's overinflated sense of self-importance, which undoubtedly led to this unnecessary book in the first place, she credits herself with the successful delivery of two kid goats despite, you guessed it, being nothing more than a mere bystander for the birth, then unnecessarily stepping in to force the second kid to milk without giving it a chance to move on its own.I guess my main takeaway is that I should be writing a memoir. I don't have JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy experience, but I have a hell of a lot more interesting story to tell than Ms. McGaha...I've at least caught big bass and my stirring rendition of splitting dump-truck loads of firewood could fill at least 2 chapters if I tell the story of each strike of the maul and work in a metaphor of the futility of splitting freshly cut white oak.

I felt like the author was rather at cross purposes with this book. She wanted to share the adventure that brought her to the new life she and husband came to due to financial issues. She wanted to tie the experience to her ancestors. I wasn't comfortable with the attempts at relating the two.

I almost didn't read this book based a few reviews calling her whining, self-absorbed, spoiled. I'm so glad I went with my gut, that said read this. While never as far down financially, I often lived on the financial edge as I raised two children as a single mom. I know that trapped feeling, the urge to run away and start anew. I admire the way she eventually moved on with her life and accepted, loved her life, as it had become. Having very little family to trace, i was entranced by the generations of her family and how she turned to them for solace and introspection. I truly loved this book. I read it as a free book, but I will be buying it for myself and as gifts for friends. By the way, I once had a pet goat named Cinnamon.

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