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Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver
Not bad, set in Appalachia, where a lot of Kingsolver’s books are set. Also interested in ecology and the inter-connectedness of things. It’s three interwoven stories, a woman forest ranger living in isolation on a mountain, a young widow trying to keep her dead husband’s farm going and an old man intent on repopulating the American chestnut. It’s all about how human’s actions on the natural world have unintended and in fact opposite effects. Spraying insecticide results in more pests, killing coyotes ends up with more coyotes. These three stories are all about finding a different way to live and farm