Counting Sheep

by Axel Lindén

When literary academic Axel Lindn leaves the city for the farm he unexpectedly inherits--along with the ever-escaping flock of sheep that comes with it--he has a fairly nave notion of what farm life will be: pure drudgery. But as time passes and Axel slowly settles into the rhythm of the farm and shepherding, his naivet gradually fades away and is replaced with deep insight into the spiritual and emotional value of manual labor, caring for other living things, and staying connected to the earth.