Rurally screwed : my life off the grid with the cowboy I love

Jessie Knadler was a New York City girl, through and through. An editor for a splashy women's magazine, she splurged on Miu Miu, partied hard, lived for Kundalini yoga, and dated a man-boy whose complexion was creamier than her own. Circling the drain both personally and professionally, Jessie definitely wouldn't have described herself as "happy"; more like caustically content. Then one day, she was assigned a story about an annual rodeo in the badlands of Eastern Montana. There, she met a twenty-five-year-old bull rider named Jake. He voted Republican and read Truck Trader . He listened to Garth Brooks. He owned guns. And Jessie suddenly found herself blindsided by something with which she was painfully unfamiliar: a genuinely lovable disposition. In fact, Jake radiated such optimism and old-school gentlemanliness that Jessie impulsively ditched Manhattan for an authentic existence, and an authentic man. Almost overnight, she was canning and sewing, making jerky, chopping firewood, and raising chickens. And all the while one question was ringing in the back of her head: "What the !#*$ have I done with my life?" A hilarious true-life love story, Rurally Screwed reveals what happens to a woman who gives up everything she's ever known and wanted-job security, money, her professional network, access to decent Thai food-to live off the grid with her one true love (and dogs and horses and chickens), and asks, is it worth it? The answer comes amid war, Bible clubs, and moonshine. Jessie Knadler was a New York City girl, through and through. An editor for a splashy women's magazine, she splurged on Miu Miu, partied hard, lived for Kundalini yoga, and dated a man-boy whose complexion was creamier than her own. Circling the drain both personally and professionally, Jessie definitely wouldn't have described herself as "happy"; more like caustically content. Then one day, she was assigned a story about an annual rodeo in the badlands of Eastern Montana.A hilarious true-life love story, __Rurally Screwed__ reveals what happens to a woman who gives up everything she's ever known and wanted-job security, money, her professional network, access to decent Thai food-to live off the grid with her one true love (and dogs and horses and chickens), and asks, is it worth it? The answer comes amid war, Bible clubs, and moonshine. Prelude The Allure of Manly Men Orgasm Face Under the Big Sky The Aircraft Carrier and the Party Boat Cowboy Up The Last Best Place Long Horns and Asphalt Burn the Ships War Bride The War of Northern Aggression Go Big or Go Home Dive into The Word I, Chicken Farmer Horse People The Cheese Incident Osmond Family Singalong 200 Hammers Genesis 3:16 A Closet Full of Aprons, A Larder Full of Pickles Moonshine on Fire June Born in July Blue Tags. “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...” From being a magazine editor in New York to becoming a Montana cowboy's wife, Jessie Knadler relates with personality and wit the strange situations -- and surprising realizations -- that she experienced in the name of love A former New York City magazine editor describes the radical change in her life after she met a young bull rider while on assignment covering a rodeo and impulsively gave up her city life for a more authentic rural life