Settled Tucsoners Taylor and Turtle are on vacation at the Hoover Dam when six-year-old Turtle witnesses an accident-a retarded man has fallen into a spillway. Kingsolver previously tracked plucky ex-Kentuckian Taylor Greer as she made her way west to Tucson, struggling to earn a living and to deal with the frightened, wounded toddler Turtle, who had been abandoned in Taylor's care in Oklahoma. Her nonfiction work Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is also a good option, especially if you would like to learn more about the need for farming as a source of locally-produced food.For what's hoped to be a "break-out book," a greatly gifted storyteller returns to the characters and settings of her celebrated first novel (The Bean Trees, 1987). If you haven’t tried reading her books before, we recommend starting with The Bean Tree or The Poisonwood Bible. If you want your next read to open up your mind and heart to issues of injustice and inequality, Barbara Kingsolver may be a good choice to add to your reading list. She is best known for her historical fiction novels, focusing on subjects like social justice, environmentalism, and feminism. Because of these strong views, many of her novels talk about people living in challenging circumstances, and how they endure in these harsh environments. If you’re not familiar with Barbara Kingsolver, she’s an American essayist, poet, and novelist, as well as political activist. The goal was to help recover America’s lost appreciation for farming and natural processes of producing food. This memoir-slash-journalistic book follows the adventure that Barbara Kingsolver and her family went on as they moved from the suburbs of Arizona to rural Appalachia, committing to one year of surviving on a diet wholly produced from local sources.
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