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Alisa Smith

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Canada

gender

female

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Health, Mind & Body

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The book Plenty has different subtitles in hardcover and paperback and the Canadian edition was called The 100-Mile Diet.

Alisa Smith, a Vancouver-based freelance writer who has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, has been published in Outside, Explore, Canadian Geographic, Reader’s Digest, Utne, and many other periodicals. The books Way Out There and Liberalized feature her work.

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Average rating: 3.70 · 2,094 ratings · 471 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon 3.69 avg rating — 1,979 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The 100-Mile Diet : A Year Of Local Eating by Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon 3.92 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Criminal Courts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Law, Social Science, and the Criminal Courts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating by J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:

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“Way back when I was four, I became increasingly sickly and spiritless. My mother took me to the doctor, who poked and prodded and deliberated. In the end, he pronounced, "She's depressed." Depressed at four years old. Why? No one had an answer....I have long evaded the real reasons for my discontentment. I still can't tell what they are, precisely, but I feel their presence most acutely in moments like this one with my grandmother, imagining a day in a big-box store that had replaced an old farm.”
― Alisa Smith

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“Did he really want to know? That at any given moment I see everyday life as only _this big_, the space between my finger and thumb. The rest of my mind is occupied with five, a dozen, three dozen other potential lives, each representing some opportunity never taken or currently within reach. Without those worlds of possibility, my life immediately begins to seem boring and drab. I'm thirty-three years old, always broke, and merely _existing_ in what, without having been sealed by formal wedding vows, had become a traditional marriage. I had no blues to lament, not really. My only drama was in my daydreams. They reminded me that any day, at any moment, I could change everything, and while many of those alternate lives featured James at my side--the truth was that some of them did not.”
― Alisa Smith

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