“Soulful and soul searching … a passionate invitation to readers to be part of the crowd that cares about the environment, peace and family …a tantalizing peek into Kingsolver’s world.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
In her essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us out of one of history’s darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have.
Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author’s belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth’s remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too.
Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.
“Kingsolver possesses a rare depth of understanding of nature’s complex mechanisms.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review