Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/16/2001
ISBN: 9780060959036
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.38w x 1.09d

Review Citations: Newsweek 08/09/2010 pg. 54

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 59169 / Prodigal Summer
Reading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 23