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I enjoyed Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. And in a casual conversation with a friend, sometime later, he mentioned having finished her book of essays, Small Wonder. He spoke about how he enjoyed it. I was open to the idea, and obtained a copy for myself. What a fantastic writer! I enjoyed her non-fiction experiences and ideas as much.
Transcript - Excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's SMALL WONDER Knowing Our Place. I have places where all my stories begin. One is a log cabin in a deep, wooded hollow at the end of Walker Mountain.
Book summary: Small Wonder: Essays 2002 BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful.
Small Wonder; By: Barbara Kingsolver Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver. In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us from one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising.
Recently I read “Called Out” an essay by Barbara Kingsolver and her husband Stephen Hopp in her book Small Wonder—and it addressed this exact phenomenon. In that essay, they were talking about the wondrous displays of wildflowers in the Arizona desert and explaining how they keep blooming year after year, but the same explanation applies to California Poppies as well. Simply put.
Small Wonder is the second collection of essays I have read by Barbara Kingsolver. Like her first collection, High Tide in Tucson, this collection is heartfelt and thought provoking. Written in response to September 11, Kingsolver expresses her sorrow through her writing, covering a variety of subjects including parenting, world peace, agriculture, nature, social protest and homelessness.
Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us from one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an a.