Kingsolver, Barbara

Spreading her memorable characters over numerous landscapes, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance.

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

Nathan Price and his family move to the Belgian Congo in 1959, and the experiences they have while living in Africa affect each member of the family in a different way.

Nathan Price and his family move to the Belgian Congo in 1959, and the experiences they have while living in Africa affect each member of the family in a different way.

A collection of twenty American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 2000 and January 2001, selected for inclusion by guest editor Barbara Kingsolver, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 2000.

The story of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they need from home but it soon becomes apparent that they need nothing as Africa transforms them into different people.

Codi returns to her hometown to confront her past and face her ailing father. What she finds is a town threatened by an environmental catastrophe and a man who could change her life.

A collection of essays in which the author searches for hope in nature and family in a world scarred by poverty and violence.

"The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publisher.