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SUMMARY:NCB Book Discussion:Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
DESCRIPTION:Wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe has returned to her home 
 territory to work at "trail maintenance" on lushly forested Zebulon 
 Mountain\, where a sighting of coyotes (not native to the area) excites her 
 interest in "the return of a significant canid predator and the reordering 
 of species it might bring about." Deanna's stewardship of this wilderness 
 is compromised by her affair with "seasonal migrant" Eddie Bondo\, whose 
 pragmatic hunter's code challenges her determination to preserve nature red 
 in tooth and claw. Their relationship\, explored in chapters (ironically) 
 entitled "Predators\," is juxtaposed with the stories ("Moth Love") of 
 former "bug scientist" and committed environmentalist Lusa Landowski\, a 
 widowed farm woman at odds with her late husband's judgmental 
 (tobacco-growing) family\, and feuding next-door neighbors Garnett Walker 
 and Nannie Rawley ("Old Chestnuts")\, whose contention arises when the 
 herbicides employed to save his chestnut trees endanger her apple orchard. 
 All of the aforementioned are interesting\, complicated\, ornery creatures 
 themselves\, and Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible\, 19xx\, etc.) has the 
 good sense to present them in extended conversations (and arguments). The 
 dialogue virtually leaps off the page as the various parties learn a great 
 deal about one another\; and themselves. The people's causes are shown to 
 have developed credibly from their personal histories and present 
 circumstances.
LOCATION:North County Branch Library Main Meeting Room (50 seats)\, North County Branch Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Emily Witkowski":MAILTO:ewitkowski@hclibrary.us
CATEGORIES:Book Group
CONTACT;CN="Emily Witkowski":MAILTO:ewitkowski@hclibrary.us
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