Prodigal summer : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors 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, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060199654
- ISBN: 0060199652
- ISBN: 0060959037 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xi, 444 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2000.
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Subject: | Farm life > Fiction. Mountain life > Fiction. Love > Fiction Biologist > Fiction Woman Biologist > Fiction Hunter > Fiction Farmers > Fiction Elderly people > Fiction Appalachian Region, Southern > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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