Book description
Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family
attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own
garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put
food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle is part memoir, part journalistic investigation,
and is full of original recipes.
Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in eastern
Kentucky. She left there and went on to obtain degrees in biology from
Depauw University and, later, the University of Arizona. In the
intervening years she lived in Greece, northern France, Great Britain
and the USA, supporting herself variously as an archaeologist,
typesetter, X-ray technician, copy editor for a small-town newspaper,
and biological researcher, before becoming a full-time writer. Her
books include poetry, non-fiction and award-winning fiction, and in
1999 she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for The Poisonwood
Bible. She lives with her husband and daughter in southern Arizona and
in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
