LAND RICH, CASH POOR My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer

Speaking with a Wisconsin accent, Brian Reisinger pours a lot of passion into this audiobook, so it's appropriate that listeners can hear the emotion in his voice. This audiobook is part memoir and part history of the ongoing challenges faced by American farmers. Reisinger weaves the two narrative threads skillfully. Sometimes the narration sounds rushed, and occasionally even mechanical. But in the most deeply personal passages, there is rawness and vulnerability, such as when he describes watching his father weeping after being forced to sell the family's dairy cows and when reflecting on the birth of his own daughter. This is a thoughtful and important work about a disappearing way of life. D.B. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2024]