Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp

HarperCollins, Apr 29, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages

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, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

About the author

Barbara Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. In 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. She received the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work, and in 2010 won Britain's Orange Prize for The Lacuna. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• Authors: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2008
• ISBN: 0060852569, 9780060852566
• Length: 400 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Gardening / Organic