International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbours tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the countryside, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they share a place.

Prodigal Summer	Nominated ISBNs: 0571206387 0385497431	Find out more about the author on the following websites: Visit the Barbara Kingsolver website *Bookpage* interview with Barbara Kingsolver (1998) Read an excerpt from Prodigal Summer
by
Barbara Kingsolver

Nominated by:
New Hampshire State Library, Concord, U.S.A London Libraries, London, England Tucson-Pima Public Library, Tucson, U.S.A.

Books nominated for the 2002 Award
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