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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

By Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver

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| Paperback | 9780060852566

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Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, VContinue

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle By Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

All stories, they say, begin in one of two ways: A stranger came to town,' or else, I set out upon a journey,' writes novelist and essayist Barbara Kingsolver in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. The latter theme pervades her new memoir cum investigative n ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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This book changed my life.

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jwright said on Oct 5, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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This book has movtivated me to plant my veggie garden again next year and continue my CSA subscription. I'm also rethinking my food purchases in a restaurant and in the grocery store. She makes a good point that we'll spend money on expensive clothes, shoes, cars, etc. but complain when we have to ... (continue)

This book has movtivated me to plant my veggie garden again next year and continue my CSA subscription. I'm also rethinking my food purchases in a restaurant and in the grocery store. She makes a good point that we'll spend money on expensive clothes, shoes, cars, etc. but complain when we have to pay a little extra for local sustainably produced food . What's wrong with our priorities; especially when it comes to our children.

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LittleBird said on Oct 31, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Who could really live like that? If I had been one of their daughters I think I would have run away from home!

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Jamie Gemuend767 said on Sep 21, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback