![]() ![]() Discussing the central environmental component of the book can diminish the effect of its suspenseful opening pages. Reviews of Kingsolver's seventh novel, "Flight Behavior," set in East Tennessee, should come with a spoiler alert. Her description of efforts to teach the young heirloom turkeys, products of generations of artificially inseminated birds, how to have old-fashioned sex is as LOL funny as any YouTube video. For an entire year, Kingsolver and her husband and children ate only locally grown or family-raised food. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of her nonfiction books, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" (2007), chronicles an experiment on the family farm in southwest Virginia, about 25 miles from Bristol. My favorite of her novels, "A Prodigal Summer" (2000), weaves together chestnut trees, coyotes and goats in Appalachia with a whole array of charmingly eccentric human characters in various stages of love. In several of her books, the mountains of Virginia and Tennessee provide settings that work well with the author's lyrical style and environmental message. Readers who are building a "green" library need to devote a shelf to Barbara Kingsolver. ![]()
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