Kingsolver opens her book with a delightful and imaginative first
chapter. I was really drawn in. What did Dellarobia actually see? We
finally find out that her "vision" was a completely natural, or at least
one that shouldn't be natural. Butterflies have landed on her family's
land when they're actually supposed to be hanging out in Mexico.
Kingsolver
really combines the consequences of climate change with how it effects
those who still make their living on the land. She gives us characters
to love, who change, reflect, and think ahead. She mixes a story of
faith and science and how the twain can meet. And for that reason alone,
this is a book worth reading.
But alas, I only give it a 3ish
star because it wasn't a page turner. It took me awhile to read the book
and it dragged in the middle. So I didn't love it but I like it and it
was worth reading because it's an important topic and needs to be
addressed.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"Hester wasn't the only one living in fantasy land with righteousness on her side; people just did that, this family and maybe all others. They built their tidy houses of self-importance and special blessing and went inside and slammed the door, unaware the mountain behind them was aflame." p.22-23
"But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself." p.59
"When she walked among these girls (ewes) they parted slowly like heavy water and looked up at her with an outlandish composure, their amber eyes eerily divided by horizontal pupils." p. 332
"...citizens of their own cheerful universe despite their full awareness of its unraveling." p. 341
