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Just Finished "Flight Behavior" by Barbara Kingsolver. Small town meets the scientific community. I really enjoyed it. I'd put it as one of her more enjoyable books.

snytiger6 9 Oct 17
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I liked it, too!

joalanna Level 5 Oct 23, 2018
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I read that for a book club a few years ago. Enjoyed it.

SKH78 Level 8 Oct 17, 2018
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thanks for the suggestion...I am a fan of hers...

thinktwice Level 8 Oct 17, 2018
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I must check it out online. I really enjoyed The Poisonwood Bible.

Here's a link to a great article she wrote about America under Trump:

[irishtimes.com]

brentan Level 8 Oct 17, 2018

I read the "Poisenwood Bible" a while ago. I read a few other of he r books, but only just recently looked up her more recent books when Iheard her on NPR promoting her newest book. Unfortunately, as I use a libaray for the lind, it, her most recent book, has not been adapted into the audio format they use yest. However when I run through her other newer books, I'll check back again fo the latest book, which sounded really interesting.

The new book tells two stories about 150 years apart, which ahve a lot of similarities and it is meant as a commentary on today's society. Can't remember the title of the new book though.

It's called Unsheltered. Here's a little excerpt from the article:

Kingsolver explores this through the stories of two families living in the same dilapidated house in two periods – the present and the 1870s – when people are grappling with a loss of control over their destiny.

“We had just had this terrible civil war, the country was as polarised as it is now. There was a shortage of generosity, a shortage of everything really. And into this walks Darwin suggesting that even the solid truth of human supremacy is up for debate.”

Did she seek out a comparable historical moment to give some hope that upheaval like this is cyclical? “There are many ways in which the crisis of this moment is far beyond anything humans have had to figure out before: we’ve wrecked the planet good and well. This is not the fall of the Roman empire, this is a larger scale.”

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