Synopsis
The National Humanities Medal-winning author of The Poisonwood Bible follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.
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Review
"Engaging.Absorbing.Lovely food writing.[Kingsolver] succeeds at adopting the warm tone of a confiding friend." -- Corby Kummer, New York Times Book Review
"Highly digestible.Engaging." -- Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe
"[Written] with passion and hope.This novelist paints a compelling big picture-broad and ambitious, with nary an extraneous stroke." -- Rocky Mountain News
"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)
"A lovely book. " -- Los Angeles Times
"Full.of zest and sometimes ribald humor. Reading this book will make you hungry." -- Raleigh News & Observer
"Charming, zestful, funny and poetic.a serious book about important problems." -- Washington Post Book World
A lovely book. --Los Angeles Times
"Classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny....Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Book Description
A year in the life of bestselling novelist ,Barbara Kingsolver, and her family as they try to eat local produce, grow their own, and reduce their ecological footprint
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