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ISBN:9780060959036
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Categories: General & literary fiction , Modern fiction
Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.

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Rated it
21 days ago
This was the first Barbara Kingsolver book I read. Her storytelling left me itching for more of her stories. Truly amazing author.

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1 months ago
One of my absolute favorite novels that I come back to time and time again. The writing is gorgeous, and her characters are so full and rich that you can't help falling into their lives.

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5 months ago
The novel starts out a little slow, but picks up when the multiple story lines are introduced. As the novel develops, these story lines develop in unexpected but plausible ways, resulting in a novel that is not just the stories of a few people but the...

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