“A touching and very funny account. . . . Thoroughly engaging.”—New York Times

Hilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Story is the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden, fix his old pickup, and resurrect a love life permanently impaired by Neil Diamond. In the process, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, and proposes marriage to a woman in New Orleans. The result is a surprisingly tender testament to love.

“Part Bill Bryson, part Anne Lamott, with a skim of Larry the Cable Guy and Walt Whitman creeping around the edges.”—Lincoln Journal Star

“Perry takes each moment, peeling it, seasoning it with rich language, and then serving it to us piping hot and fresh.”—Chicago Tribune

Truck: A Love Story contains, as author Michael Perry might put it, a whole lotta people watchin’. Perry is to Wisconsin what Garrison Keillor is to Minnesota—-an erudite, self-effacing, and entertaining local boy whose small-town vignettes remind you that people are the same everywhere. This book (Perry is also the author of Population: 485) is his memoir of the year in which he decides, in the fading light of his 30s, to get serious about a few things, namely fixing up a favorite old pickup that is slowly sinking into his asphalt driveway, and tricking the squirrels into letting him grow a successful garden. It’s just icing on the cake that between the rust removing and the manure shoveling, he accidentally falls in love. Delightfully off-kilter and remarkably sane.