Upon moving to Appalachian Ohio with their two small children, Richard Gilbert and his wife are thrilled to learn there still are places in America that haven t been homogenized. But their excitement over the region s beauty and quirky character turns to culture shock as they try to put down roots far from their busy professional jobs in town. They struggle to rebuild a farmhouse, and Gilbert gets conned buying equipment and sheepa ewe with an outie belly button turns out to be a neutered male, and mysterious illnesses plague the flock. Haunted by his father s loss of his boyhood farm,...