![]() ![]() Ginny’s an ‘ole timer here so High Tide in Tuscon! was before my time. Have a book you'd like to nominate for a future discussion?Ĭlick on the Suggestion Box and post your suggestion ![]() SeniorNet receives 7% of your purchase price In the course of one hot humid languid summer, brimming and at times overflowing with erotic fecundity, they discover through intimate lessons of biology and the realities of small farming the ultimate, urgent truth : that humans are only one part of life on earth.Īrchived discussion of Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver || Chapter 1 In alternating chapters she narrates the stories of Deanna, a forest caretaker whose solitary life is suddenly invaded by Eddy Bondo, a young hunter Lusa, a career entomologist and reluctant heir to her husband's farm single-minded embittered Garnett, who is determined to save the American Chestnut tree at any cost and Nanny, his elderly neighbor and nemesis.Īs their lives intersect in brilliantly evoked southern Appalachia, these characters find connections to one another and the surrounding flora and fauna they share. With Prodigal Summer, acclaimed novelist Barbara Kingsolver has written an ode to wildness, a celebration of the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. ![]()
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