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It's not a novel this time from Barbara Kingsolver, but this work of narrative nonfiction still satisfies. Part memoir, part agriculture education and all storytelling in the classic Kingsolver mode, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle documents her family's effort to spend one year eating only the food that they produced or that was grown in their community. While following the family's quest, you'll learn frightening facts about corporate agriculture, delicious recipes, and even the low-down on turkey sex. A celebration of those who work the land, this book could very well change the way you eat.

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.

Barbara Kingsolver's twelve books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction include the novels The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible. Translated into nineteen languages, her work has won a devoted worldwide readership and many awards, including the National Humanities Medal. Her most recent book is the highly praised, New York Times bestselling Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, published in May 2007. She lives with her family on a farm in southwestern Virginia.

400 pages