Homeland and Other Stories
by Barbara Kingsolver | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0060917016 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0060917016 Global Overview for this book
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From the back:
This rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories spans a variety of landscapes from northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. In every setting, Barbara Kingsolver's distinctive voice rings true. Drawn with empathy and humor, the characters in these stories are bound by a strong sense of place and, especially, the compelling ties of one human being to another. In "Homeland", a child accepts the impossible responsibility of remembering her Cherokee great-grandmother's dying culture. The quietly dissolving couple in "Blueprints" must fight ghosts of past expectations to reach one another. These are stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. Kingsolver creates a world of love an possibility that readers will want to take as their own.
February 2012: Lovely stories... I really love Kingsolver's work.
Read for a 2nd time February 2023.
This rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories spans a variety of landscapes from northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. In every setting, Barbara Kingsolver's distinctive voice rings true. Drawn with empathy and humor, the characters in these stories are bound by a strong sense of place and, especially, the compelling ties of one human being to another. In "Homeland", a child accepts the impossible responsibility of remembering her Cherokee great-grandmother's dying culture. The quietly dissolving couple in "Blueprints" must fight ghosts of past expectations to reach one another. These are stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. Kingsolver creates a world of love an possibility that readers will want to take as their own.
February 2012: Lovely stories... I really love Kingsolver's work.
Read for a 2nd time February 2023.
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