Kingsolver, Barbara

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.

Six-year-old Turtle Green witnesses a freak accident drawing her and her mother into a conflict of historic proportions.

The author tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia from Arizona in order to live a simpler life, grow their own food, and live among a community of local organic growers.

Taylor Greer hits the road wanting only to get as far away from Kentucky as possible, ending up in Arizona with a 3-year-old Cherokee girl she has inherited from a woman in a bar.

Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes to the west but by the time she arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle. Can she come to terms with motherhood and put down roots?.