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Book Review of Prodigal Summer

Prodigal Summer
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Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn in wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of on e humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonist face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and funa with which they necessarily share a place.