Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver

Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches the forest in an isolated cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who invades her most private spaces. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself marooned in a strange place. 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 complexities of the world. Over the summer these characters find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.


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