With his eye (and ear) for the comical elements of contemporary rural life, New York Times bestselling author Michael Perry has built a loyal audience with his popular memoirs Visiting Tom and Population 485. Now, for the first time, he turns to fiction with The Jesus Cow (released May 19), an affectionately skewed and big-hearted depiction of one miraculous bovine and the chaos it unleashes. “A wildly comic and deeply felt examination of faith, combining politics, scandal, farming, love, environmentalism and rural philosophy,” says Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Member.

➜ Order The Jesus Cow online! Find the new novel right here.

➜ Join Perry in the Volume One Gallery on May 20 for a special reading and book signing for The Jesus Cow.

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WHAT: Michael Perry's "The Jesus Cow" Reading & Signing
WHERE: The Volume One Gallery at the Local Store
                     205 N. Dewey Street, Eau Claire, Wis.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 20 • 7pm

Read Volume One's interview with Perry about The Jesus Cow!

A Series of
Adventurous Flops 

Michel Perry’s newest book, The Jesus Cow, is his first adult novel and features a bachelor farmer named Harley Jackson. Harley lives in a northern Wisconsin village called Swivel, not too far north of the university town Clearwater (that’s right, Clearwater) and even closer to the small town of Boomler (that’s right, Boomler) ...  Read More!