Animal, Vegetable, MiracleA Year of Food Life

Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture thats better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, ANIMAL, VEGETEABLE, MIRACLE makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.