A review by imaginethehours
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver

5.0

I almost always love what Barbara Kingsolver has to write. Such intelligent, truthful takes on issues related to the environment, living in different places, and all sorts of universal aspects of life and being human. I agree with a lot of her messages and learn more from her knowledge and perspectives. Her writing is engaging and quickly read.

"If only I hold my mouth right, keep a clear fix on what I believe is true while I make up my stories, surely I will end up saying what I mean." -p.45

"Where does it go when it leaves us, the memory of beautiful, strange things?" -p.202

"Give me the chance and I'll spend my consumer dollar on the story that relates to what kind of shape the world will be in fifty years from now. I'll choose analysis, every time, over placebo news and empty salve for my patriotic ego. I'm offended by the presumption that my honor as a citizen will crumple unless I'm protected from knowledge of my country's mistakes. I'm made of sturdier stuff than that, and I imagine, if he really thought about it, so is that guy who leaned out of a truck to give me the finger. What kind of love is patriotism, if it evaporates in the face of uncomfortable truths? What kind of honor sits quietly by while a nation's conscience flies south for a long, long winter?" -p.227