Memoir
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
2007·384 pages
Barbara Kingsolver recounts her family's year-long experiment eating only locally sourced food on their Virginia farm, blending personal anecdotes with insights into sustainable agriculture.
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Barbara Kingsolver recounts her family's year-long experiment eating only locally sourced food on their Virginia farm, blending personal anecdotes with insights into sustainable agriculture.
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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain."Naturally, our first stop was to buy ju...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Brief discussions of animal harvesting and slaughter in farming contexts
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Magic & witchcraft
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Frequent advocacy for local sustainable food systems, critiques of industrial agriculture, pesticides, and farm policies
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Minor mentions of animal suffering in industrial farming critiques
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