Book recommendation

On a totally separate note, my visit to Aunt Lois' has inspired a wholly new appreciation of nature in me. In search of understanding the world that is not-city, I just read Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer, set in the southern Appalachian mountains. Kingsolver (who also wrote The Poisonwood Bible) was raised in rural Kentucky, in the "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness," and she has a graduate degree in biology. It shows. The woman is a poet, and weaves three separate storylines of a park ranger, a farmer's wife, and an elderly organic farmer into a dizzyingly beautiful tapestry. I learned so much about nature, human relationships, and the connections between the two of them that I can't praise the book enough. Go read it. Now. Click here.