Might Kingsolver as essayist be even better than Kingsolver as novelist? This collection of essays - many bearing on the post 9/11 American psyche - are full of absolutely sane, quirkily intelligent and enlightening insights and comments on life. On Nature (she trained as a biologist), the politics of fear, television-watching, chicken-keeping, flying, her children . . . she's thoughtful, even philosophical, but never ponderous. On the contrary she makes us think while we laugh out loud. Excellent!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 49 January 2009 ) |
