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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Paperback – April 29, 2008

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“Charming, zestful, funny and poetic…a serious book about important problems.” (Washington Post Book World)

“Charming . . . Literary magic . . . If you love the narrative voice of Barbara Kingsolver, you will be thrilled.” (Houston Chronicle)

“ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE makes an important contribution to the chorus of voices calling for change.”” (Chicago Tribune)

“If you...buy...one book this summer, make it this one...As satisfying and complete as a down home supper.” (Tucson Citizen)

“Engaging…Absorbing…Lovely food writing…[Kingsolver] succeeds at adopting the warm tone of a confiding friend.” (Corby Kummer, New York Times Book Review)

“A lovely book. ” (Los Angeles Times)

“[Written] with passion and hope…This novelist paints a compelling big picture-broad and ambitious, with nary an extraneous stroke.” (Rocky Mountain News)

“Homespun, unassuming, informed, positive, inspiring. . . . Unstinting in its concerns about this imperiled planet.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

“A profound, graceful, and literary work . . . Timeless. . . . It can change who you are.” (Rick Bass, Boston Globe)

“Classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny....Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“Kingsolver elegantly chronicles a year of back-to-the-land living…Readers...will take heart and inspiration here.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Kingsolver beautifully describes this experience.” (More Magazine)

“Kingsolver dresses down the American food complex…These down-on-the-farm sections are inspiring and…compelling.” (Outside magazine)

“Faithful, funny, and thought-provoking...Readers-whether vegetarian or carnivore-will not go hungry, literally or literarily.” (BookPage)

“Equal parts folk wisdom and political activism . . . This family effort instructs as much as it entertains.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

“Full…of zest and sometimes ribald humor… Reading this book will make you hungry.” (Raleigh News & Observer)

“Lessons learned in sustainability are worth feasting on-and taking to heart.” (Self)

“Every bit as transporting as-and more ecologically relevant than-any “Year In Provence”-style escapism...Earthy...informative....[and] englightened.” (Washington Post)

“Provocative . . . Kingsolver . . . evokes the sheer joy of producing one’s own food.” (People)

“An impassioned, sensual, smart and witty narrative…Kinsolver is a master at leavening a serious message with humor.” (St. Petersburg Times)

“Wry, insightful and inspiring to anyone who yearns to work with the earth.” (Chicago Tribune (on the audiobook))

“Kingsolver…adds enough texture and zest to stir wistful yearnings in all of us...[A] vicarious taste of domesticity.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“A terrific effort. The delight for readers…is the chance to experience the rediscovery of community through food.” (The Oregonian (Portland))

“Kingsolver, who writes evocatively about our connection to place, does so here with characteristic glowing prose. She provides the rapture.” (Miami Herald)

“If you’re interested in learning more about healthful eating, you’ll want to read…ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE.” (Charlotte Observer)

“Loaded with terrific information about everything from growth hormones to farm subsidies.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Kingsolver carries us along in her distinct and breezy prose.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

“I defy anyone to read this book and walk away from it without gaining at least the desire to change.” (Bookreporter.com)

“Charming...and persuasive...Each season-and chapter-unfolds with a natural rhythm and mouth-watering appeal.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

“Anyone who read and appreciated THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA by Michael Pollan will want to read Barbara Kingsolver’s book.” (Roanoke Times)

“[This] is a book that, without being preachy, makes a solid case for eating locally instead of globally.” (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

“Highly digestible…Engaging.” (Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe)

“Other notable writers have addressed this topic, but Kingsolver claims it as her own....Self-deprecating instead of self-righteous.” (Charlotte Observer)

“Delectable . . . steeped in elegant prose and seasoned with smart morsels about the food industry.” (Chicago Tribune)

“[Kingsolver is] a master storyteller, and even those who’ve heard this tale before will be captivated.” (Daily News)

“ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE is a chronicle of food feats…I’m inclined to agree with most points Kingsolver makes.” (Chicago Sun-Times)

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. 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.



Camille Kingsolver graduated from Duke University in 2009 and currently works in the mental health field. She is an active advocate for the local-food movement, doing public speaking for young adults of her own generation navigating food choices in a difficult economy. She lives in Asheville, N.C., and grows a vegetable garden in her front yard.



Steven L. Hopp was trained in life sciences and received his PhD from Indiana University. He has published papers in bioacoustics, ornithology, animal behavior and more recently in sustainable agriculture. He is the founder and director of the Meadowview Farmers Guild, a community development project that includes a local foods restaurant and general store that source their products locally. He teaches at Emory & Henry College in the Environmental Studies department. He coauthored Animal, Vegetable, Miracle with Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0060852569
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 29, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780060852566
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060852566
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1160L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.88 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Barbara Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky and earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona before becoming a freelance writer and author. At various times in life she has lived in England, France, and the Canary Islands, and has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico, and South America. She spent two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides.

Her fifteen books include short stories, essay collections, poetry, and seven novels. In the first decade of the new millennium, following her well-known work The Poisonwood Bible, she published two novels (prior to this one) and three non-fiction books including Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a narrative of her family’s locavore year that helped launch a modern transition in America’s food culture. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than two dozen languages, and has been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation.

Kingsolver was named one the most important writers of the 20th Century by Writers Digest. In 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts. Critical acclaim for her books includes multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, among many others. The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize, and won the national book award of South Africa, before being named an Oprah Book Club selection. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle won numerous prizes including the James Beard award. The Lacuna won Britain’s prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, and last year she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work.

In 1998, Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize for fiction, the nation’s largest prize for an unpublished first novel, which has helped to establish the careers of more than a half dozen new literary voices. Through a recent agreement the prize has now become the PEN / Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.

Barbara has two daughters, Camille and Lily. Her husband, Steven Hopp, teaches environmental studies. Since June 2004, Barbara and her family have lived on a farm in southern Appalachia, where they raise an extensive vegetable garden and Icelandic sheep.

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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Renewed Our Spirits and Brought the Family Back to the Kitchen and Back to the Table.
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Renewed Our Spirits and Brought the Family Back to the Kitchen and Back to the Table.
I borrowed this book from the library initially, our CSA was having a February "book club" read, and this was the book. My husband and I have gardened to one extent or another since we married almost 40 years ago, and he grew up on a working farm. When our 30 something children were young we had 3,000 square feet under cultivation in vegetables to eat, freeze, can, sell to the local food co-op and give away.Now we're on our second round of children. We are older, tired and we'd moved away from our fertile loamy soil to sand, acidity and bands of marauding white-tailed deer. We hardly gardened the past 3 years.Then we found this incredible, life altering book. Actually, the book is not incredible. Barbara Kingsolver's lyrical prose, written with wisdom, humor and truth, was able to bring my husband and I back to the path that led to the local farmer's market, a local CSA (community sustainable agriculture)and gardens of our own again. Her words, and those of her daughter and husband, brought us back into the kitchen, they brought us back to the table, together again as family, to prepare and eat meals together, to talk, to be happy and to be relaxed with one another.We were able to get the book on CD Animal, Vegetable, Miracle CD, and my husband and I listened to it every evening, enraptured with every chapter, every story, every success and every failure. We felt as though we were living through the Kingsolver family's year of local food and living with them. As the story progressed, so changed our family. We started baking bread again with this fun book Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients ordering organic, locally grown and produced meats, poultry, vegetables and fruit from local growers through the West Michigan Food Co-Op and even going together with other friends to order organic grains and legumes in bulk through a local distributor.I could write forever the ways this book has changed our family, really fundamentally changed the way we think about food, our local farmers, our earth and sustainability and our community. Much of what we learned, we knew already, but in disjointed news-bites and fragmented memories of our young married (gardening) life. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" gave us new facts, refreshed old ones and pulled all the information into a beautiful story book, a wonderful primer for living. Thank you to Barbara and her family for showing us the way.Additional Note: I've purchased copies of the book for my boss, my adult children, siblings and myself since that first copy I read was from the library!
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