![]() Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches the forest from her outpost in 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 confound her self-assured, solitary life. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. the perfect word for describing nature in high season, when a maple tree is whirling thousands of seeds into the air.” Kingsolver defines “prodigal” as: “Recklessly productive, wastefully extravagant, lavish, prolific…. Prodigal Summer, as Kingsolver explains, is about the “biological cycles and rhythms of life,” including seasons, coyotes, sheep, chestnut trees, moths, or humans. ![]() ![]() As the summer comes to an end, my Five Star pick this week is Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, a novel that is “all about sex,“ as Jennifer Schuessler described in her New Yorkīut don’t jump to conclusions. ![]()
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