![]() ![]() Kingsolver's love of nature, food and family shines through. She's also whip smart and funny, and has a topical tale to tell, albeit one without much conflict. Kingsolver has written 11 novels, so she approaches non-fiction as a storyteller, describing in a warm and folksy way the dumb-as-dirt idiocy of newborn turkeys, the correct way to harvest asparagus and the pleasure to be had in bottling homemade tomato sauce in a kitchen warmed by a crackling fire. But this book is an exception.Īnimal Vegetable Mineral is Barbara Kingsolver's memoir about the year when she moved with her husband and two daughters from Tucson Arizona to a farm in Appalachia, determined to live off local produce for a year. So I know that not everyone finds tales of life on the land thrilling reading. I had tried to sell an urban girl on the merits of a book about agriculture. She assured me as we walked out of the noisy bar that it wasn't because only half of what I'd said was audible, and slightly less than a third coherent, it was that the topic sounded dead boring. ![]() Kirsten Alexander: I recently tried to recommend Barbara Kingsolver's new book Animal Vegetable Mineral to a friend and it didn't go at all well. ![]()
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