- Country life, Food habits, Farm life, Agriculture
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.
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Contemporary, warm, classical in form and resolved.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060852559
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Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet.
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