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PRODIGAL SUMMER by Barbara KingsolverOct 2000 | Fiction | Nature | Contemporary
Setting: Kentucky
468 pages
“Prodigal Summer” weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
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. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life.
On a farm several miles from the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer’s wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned 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 of a future neither of them expected.
Recommended by Pam Hurd: I have appreciated several of Kingsolver’s novels, but I think this one is my favorite. One of the things that I love most about books are when something in them forces me to see something in the world differently than I did before. A reviewer Sarah Vig said “…’Prodigal Summer’ reads at times like a steamy romance, a natural history, and a family drama, and it is the best of all these things: sexy, smart, lovely, and at times deeply sad. The unlikely mixture of all these elements makes the book perfect for summer reading.”
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FORMAT:
Anyone is welcome if they've read the book.
Each person gives a SHORT overview of what they thought of the book - like, didn't like, etc.
Then discussion leader guides through more specific questions or topics. [You can often find specific book club questions online. There are also "generic" book club questions available. But the more you customize, the better the discussion. ]
We do our best to give everyone an equal chance to share their thoughts about the book.
Occasionally and depending on attendees' schedules and preferences, we sometimes go to Mike's Restaurant just down the road which does not take credit cards, or to another restaurant.
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