Prodigal Summer

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. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver''s finest work.