Partita
Unsheltered
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has […]
Flight Behavior : a Novel
The Washington Post Kingsolver has written one of the more thoughtful novels about the scientific, financial and psychological intricacies of climate change. And her ability to put these silent, breathtakingly beautiful butterflies at the center of this calamitous and noisy debate is nothing short of brilliant. Flight Behavior isn't trying to reform recalcitrant consumers or […]
The Lacuna : a Novel
The Washington Post – Ron Charles ?the most mature and ambitious [novel] she's written during her celebrated 20-year career, but it's also [Kingsolver's] most demanding?a novel of capital-L Liberal ideas?workers' rights, sexual equality, artistic freedom?Nevertheless, this rich novel is certainly bigger than its politics. It resurrects several dramatic events of the early 20th century that […]
Demon Copperhead
Animal Dreams
The Bean Trees
Pigs In Heaven
The Poisonwood Bible
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : a Year of Food Life
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by Nina PlanckMichael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow […]