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A beautiful book full of delicately woven connections between humans - both in relationship to one another, and to the natural world around them, which resonates this: these ties, should we choose to be aware, are vital to our survival. This sumptuous novel explores the most tender emotions surrounding the heart. Prodigal Summer illuminates snapshots of situations in which the connected cycles that all living beings move through, are plainly valid - thus championing the very concept of ecology itself.
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Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Alaya, May 2, 2008
A beautiful book full of delicately woven connections between humans - both in relationship to one another, and to the natural world around them, which resonates this: these ties, should we choose to be aware, are vital to our survival. This sumptuous novel explores the most tender emotions surrounding the heart. Prodigal Summer illuminates snapshots of situations in which the connected cycles that all living beings move through, are plainly valid - thus championing the very concept of ecology itself.(4 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)