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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

  • 384 pages ยท about 6 hours
  • First published 2007
  • 23 editions

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1 About this book

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007) is a non-fiction book by Barbara Kingsolver detailing her family's attempt to eat only locally grown food for an entire year.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Gardening
  • Biography & autobiography
  • Country life
  • Authors, biography
  • Anecdotes
  • Food habits
  • Farm life
  • Agriculture

2 About Barbara Kingsolver

Born 1955

Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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