Hold on for the ride: with feature poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family members sweep visitors along on the journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural existence where they vow to buy only food raised in their have neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields astonishing discoveries about turkey sex existence and excessively zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that’s better for a nearby and in addition better up for grabs.

Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Pet, Vegetable, Wonder makes a separate case for setting the kitchen back again at the guts of family life, and diversified farms at the center from the American diet.