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Books like animal vegetable miracle5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Turkey sex aside, Kingsolver's book sold me on going local. ![]() Even her engaging narrative instructs, teaching more about the sex life of turkeys than I'd ever known. ![]() Kingsolver loves to inform, and includes sidebars from her husband, environmental studies professor Steven Hopp, plus an extensive list of eating-local and sustainability resources. Though the author can wear her liberal, environmentally sensitive heart on her sleeve, she always pulls back from the brink of preachiness, writing with wryness, warmth, and radiant prose. What had been their summer getaway became their home and the source for their food, the means by which "to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew."ĭubbing themselves "locavores," Kingsolver, her husband, and their two daughters began their year-long experiment in March, already dreaming, she writes, of "the splendor of vegetables." In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver, whose madly readable novels address big issues including biodiversity ( Prodigal Summer) and cultural arrogance ( The Poisonwood Bible), turns here to memoir, telling how she and her family left their Tucson home of 25 years to move to their southern Appalachian farm. Such is the power of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Plenty, two new books on the imperative of eating locally. ![]()
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