But Lusa finds that the farm calls to her, and she decides to fully embrace her life there and find her place in her husband’s family. Nearly everyone in his family is leery of Lusa’s city ways and strange ideas, and they expect her to go right back to Lexington and her old life. When Lusa loses her husband in a car accident, she must decide what to do with her life, and how to fit in with her husband’s relatives. Moth Love is about Lusa, an entomologist turned farmer’s wife. The three stories begin separately, but as the book progresses the stories converge they begin sharing characters in common and the reader can see how they are all part of the whole. Prodigal Summer is actually three stories in one, all set in or around a small Appalachian town. Prodigal Summer is every bit as DIK worthy as Poisonwood Bible. Not to fear: this isn’t like an Oscar awarded more for past work than the current endeavor. When I finished her latest novel, Prodigal Summer, I decided to “right the wrong” by writing a DIK review of it instead. As it happened, I ended up going into labor and having a baby that night instead, so the review never got written.

It was the most thought-provoking and compelling book I had read in some time.

When I finished Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible one afternoon last January, I just knew I had to write a DIK review of it.

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