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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." 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 that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, 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. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."

芭芭拉•金索沃尔

1955年生，长于美国肯塔基州乡村。她的第一本长篇小说集《豆树青青》自1987年出版以来已被翻译成20多种语言在不同国家出版，并已编入美国高中课本，成为美国大学文学专业的核心课程。2000年，她获得象征美国文艺界最高荣誉的国家人文奖章，2010年获英国橘子奖，2011年获美国戴顿文学奖。另有《纵情夏日》、《毒木圣经》等十余部小说、散文、诗歌类作品。目前，芭芭拉和她的家人一起生活在美国阿巴拉契亚山南部的一个农场里。