Do you love oysters? Do you love cooking? Then you'll love the fantastic new memoir from Upstart Crow client Erin Byers Murray!SHUCKED: LIFE ON A NEW ENGLAND OYSTER FARM (St. Martin's Press) is now available from your favorite book retailers. Murray chronicles her experience with the crew at Island Creek Oysters, where she learned the ins and outs of farming, and follows her food in an unforgettable journey from sea to table.Praise for SHUCKED:"Murray’s own love of food and food writing informs the narrative, and she skillfully dramatizes the scenes of summertime sowing and depicts her many colorful co-workers. Murray eschews poetic waxing on her subject and focuses closely on the action and the hard, hard work of ..." --Publishers Weekly"Part of the book’s charm is following Murray through the process of becoming aware of her surroundings in working directly with an edible product. An entertaining and informative firsthand experience of the locavore movement." --Library Journal“While most books about oysters tell people what they want to hear, Shucked tells it like it is: the frigid winter days on the water with hands like popsicles, the backbreaking work, the anxiety of nurturing thousands of dollars’ worth of oyster seed, the hard-partying nights. Erin Byers Murray captures the seasonal rhythms of the New England coast and the romance of one exceptional company’s efforts to coax great food from the sea. You’ll never take an oyster for granted again.” --Rowan Jacobsen, bestselling author of The Geography of OystersPick up your copy today!