The novel alternates between three stories whose links gradually emerge, in a tiny community of 600 people where, as one perplexed newcomer remarks: "Everybody within 16 miles of here is uncle or cousin to you someways." From a mountain log cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a 47-year-old biologist with a "hillbilly accent" and a serious education, scours National Forest land for poachers while keeping fond tabs on the coyotes new to her territory.
In Prodigal Summer she returns in a sense to her own back yard, although her marvellously subtle and compelling tale of a southern Appalachian farming community in tense interplay with the wilderness on its doorstep contains a deft parable of humankind's place in nature.
Barbara Kingsolver's fiction has achieved bestselling status in the US with surprisingly ambitious themes, from Native American culture in The Bean Trees and its sequel Pigs in Heaven, through the Nicaraguan war of Animal Dreams, to evangelism and American foreign policy in the Belgian Congo of The Poisonwood Bible.
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