Book: Prodigal Summer
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Pages: 464
This is my 68th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
Over the course of one humid summre, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel's intriguing protagonists - a reclusive wildlife biologist, a young farmer's wife marooned far from home, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors - face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flore and fauna with whome they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.
I liked this book. I am a Kingsolver fan and think she is an amazing writer. I liked the characters and how the main characters all wove together in the in. It did get a little predictable, but not not terribly so. It does get a little steamy as well, but not on the level of YA these days, so it was fine. The story flowed well and I liked the ending even though I assumed this was how it would wrap up.
Stars: 4
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