Prodigal Summer

<p><strong>National Bestseller</strong></p><p><strong>A blend of breathtaking artistry encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature. -- <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></strong></p><p><strong>In this beautiful novel Barbara Kingsolver acclaimed author of <em>The Poisonwood Bible</em> and the Pulitzer-Prize winning <em>Demon Copperhead </em>and recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.</strong></p><p>Over the course of one humid summer as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside this novel's intriguing protagonists--a reclusive wildlife biologist a young farmer's wife marooned far from home and a pair of elderly feuding neighbors--face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology the realities of small farming and the final urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.</p><p><em>Prodigal Summer</em> is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature and of nature itself.</p>