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The Animal, Vegetable Miracle Summary

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In the Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver 's family, which consisted of her husband, Steven L. Hopp, and her two daughters, Camille and Lily used to live in Tucson, Arizona but Kingsolver began to feel that they had an unnecessary drain on local resources, especially water. The family had always owned property in the Appalachia region and visited the property every summer. One year they decided to move to their property in the Appalachia permanently around when Lily was entering third grade and Camille was a year away from going to college. The move inspired a year-long experiment which was aiming to eat only local food. Kingsolver claims the reasons for the dramatic switch in their diet was to eat food with

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