Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver [196]
For their comments on various drafts of the manuscript I thank Steven Hopp, Emma Hardesty, Frances Goldin, Sydelle Kramer, Terry Karten, Fenton Johnson, Arthur Blaustein, Jim Malusa, Sonya Norman, Rob Kingsolver, Fred Hebard, Felicia Mitchell, and the enthusiastic chorus at HarperCollins; all of it helped. Any errors of fact that have persisted in the face of all this expertise are supremely my own.
I’m pretty sure I owe my particular way of looking at the world, colored heavily in greens, to my parents’ choosing to rear me in the wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness, and to my brother, Rob, mentor and coconspirator in snake catching and paw-paw hunting. My sister, Ann, has expanded her soul for my support in ways that sometimes resemble wings. My daughters, Camille and Lily, are such experts in grace and wonder that they deliver me a world baked fresh daily. And for Steven, whose perfect ear and steady hand were beside me through this book as they are through life altogether, I offer up my thanks to the fates of mate choice and can’t believe my luck.
About the Author
BARBARA KINGSOLVER’s nine published books include novels, collections of short stories, poetry, essays, and an oral history. Her previous novel, The Poisonwood Bible, remained on the country’s bestseller lists for more than a year and won literary awards at home and abroad. Her work has also appeared in numerous literary anthologies and periodicals.
Ms. Kingsolver grew up in Kentucky and earned a graduate degree in biology before becoming a full-time writer. She and her husband, Steven Hopp, cowrite articles on science and natural history. With their two daughters they divide their time between Tucson, Arizona, and a farm in southern Appalachia.
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FICTION
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Animal Dreams
Homeland and Other Stories
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NONFICTION
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona
Mine Strike of 1983
POETRY
Another America
Copyright
PRODIGAL SUMMER. Copyright © 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © MARCH 2007 ISBN: 9780061839924
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11