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Barbara Kingsolver’s “Prodigal Summer?? is one of the few books that makes the 700-mile trek to Harvard with me every year...
Barbara Kingsolver understands that human life boils down to three basic essentials—birth, death, and sex. Kingsolver’s “Prodigal Summer?? is a 444-page celebration of both the wildness that unites humans with the natural world and the deep emotional capacity that make us unique...
...characters of “Prodigal Summer?? cannot escape the fact that, in some indefinable way, humans are not the same as other species. Kingsolver reveals that important things reside in the gap between what is human and what is wild: love, kinship, pride. Throughout the novel, each character confronts this gap, some with more success than others...
Kingsolver knows something not only about the insatiable craving of desire, but about the inevitable complications that follow when humans pursue it. The sex in “Prodigal Summer?? is instinctive and exuberant, whether occurring in an abandoned chestnut log or on a crushed bed of wildflowers...
...Prodigal Summer?? humans are just another species on the earth, physical creatures with their needs and desires. This physicality does not diminish humanity, but elevates it. The next time you need an escape from the gray winter of Harvard, open “Prodigal Summer?? and immerse yourself in a lush, sensuous world where wildness can still be found...