Austin Area Reading Circle
Reader's Guide
July 2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavores.those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers...
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- Were you comfortable with the book's format? Why or why not?
- Do you think you could live for a year as Kingsolver's family did? What would you like about that life most? Least?
- Did you change any food purchasing or cooking habits after reading this book? Did you try any of the recipes?
- How does Kingsolver communicate to us how her family functions?
- Do you think that Kingsolver idealizes or compromises her attempts at being a locovore?
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