Prodigal Summer

The book ‘Prodigal Summer’ is written by Barbara Kingsolver. It is a novel. The book weaves together three stories of human love between the forested hills and small farms of southern Appalachia. The story’s characters are a young farmer’s wife, a reclusive wildlife biologist, and a pair of elderly, neighborhood enemies. The book analyzes themes of nature, connections, and the human place in the ecosystem.