Prodigal Summer
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Prodigal Summer
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Narrated by:
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Barbara Kingsolver
About this listen
Triumphing once again, Barbara Kingsolver has written a beautiful new novel: a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches them from an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and her solitary life. Down the mountain, another web of lives unfolds as Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself 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 the future holds.
Over the course of one long summer, these characters find connections to one another, and to the land, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.
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Superb characterisation of people and place
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Beautiful
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My absolute favourite book!
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy a slow read and a gradually developing plot. The writing is poetic, but easy to listen to. The narration was perfect.What was one of the most memorable moments of Prodigal Summer?
The last chapter where old neighbours find one another and make peace.Which character – as performed by Barbara Kingsolver – was your favourite?
Difficult to pick a character. I think all the characters were perfectly narrated.Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes, both.Enchanting
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