The novel took me back to my days spent enjoying the safari in Tanzania, free from the norms of the civilized world and spending time attuned to the rhythm of nature. This is my debut into the beautiful world written by Kingsolver and I really enjoyed my short trip to the wild Appalachia painted in detail by the author’s love for anything living. Anyone who has a small space reserved in their hearts for the indelible beauty of nature cannot stop themselves from loving this novel. Published in the year 2000, Prodigal Summer, the fifth novel of Barbara Kingsolver is all about going back to nature and embracing the wilderness. With its strong balance of narrative and drama, Prodigal Summer is stands alongside The Poisonwood Bible and The Lacuna as one of Barbara Kingsolver’s finest works.Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver – A Review Date of Publication – 17th October, 2000 Rating – 5/5 Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections of love to one another and to the surrounding nature with which they share a place.
And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbours tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.
On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer’s wife, finds herself marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own.
She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and interrupts her self-assured, solitary life. 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. It is summer in the Appalachian mountains and love, desire and attraction are in the air.
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