Prodigal Summer
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Amazon Synopsis
"From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life. Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned on her husband's farm where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbours, tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.
Over the course of one humid summer in the Appalachian mountains these characters discover their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they share their place in the world".
I enjoyed this book very much, especially the interlinking themes and details linking the characters. I felt real empathy with them and their common beliefs. It's as though they come to understand each other having hardly or never met.
I loved the way Kingsolver gradually exposed how they are linked to each other, and at the end of the book, in anticipating the changes to their lives that will result in them getting to know each other, this book gave me a lovely warm feeling (I'm right sentimental sometimes). If Kingsolver writes a sequel I'd love to read it.
Passed to my mum.
"From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life. Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned on her husband's farm where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbours, tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.
Over the course of one humid summer in the Appalachian mountains these characters discover their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they share their place in the world".
I enjoyed this book very much, especially the interlinking themes and details linking the characters. I felt real empathy with them and their common beliefs. It's as though they come to understand each other having hardly or never met.
I loved the way Kingsolver gradually exposed how they are linked to each other, and at the end of the book, in anticipating the changes to their lives that will result in them getting to know each other, this book gave me a lovely warm feeling (I'm right sentimental sometimes). If Kingsolver writes a sequel I'd love to read it.
Passed to my mum.
