Reviews

“Goat Song is one of those rare books that capture a singular once-in-a-lifetime experience in prose that speaks the language of poetry.”

“Basquin's masterful, compassionate remembrance of her life on her isolated Washington Island Angora goat farm in Lake Michigan, a powerful reflection of Basquin's experiences with birth and death and everything in between—especially, discovery of self.”

“A wonderful foray into the heart of humanity's rarely noticed, extraordinary relationship with members of the animal kingdom.”

“Neither Sue Hubbell—who writes of her beekeeping in several books—nor Gretel Ehrlich, who has written about her life on a remote Montana ranch, has given us a more colorful and concise opening.”

“Her story is both poignant and, in an individual sense, heroic. As each page is turned, one is eager to read more.”

“The sojourn with the goats was a magical experience that I could not have easily provided for myself . . . She has given us a share of that experience in Goat Song.”