In her essay collection Barbara Kingsolver brings to us an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners.
The overall symbol of the wisteria vines in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees is an example of a symbiotic relationship. By working together for a shared survival, both the rhizobia and the wisteria vines are able to better thrive in their environment and achieve a balance that is only possible by the two factors working together.
Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.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 Whether she is contemplatSometimes grave.