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This book was a little slow at first but very enjoyable by the end. It wasn't as good as some of Kingsolver's others but still a recommended read.

My favorite book from my favorite author. Lovely interwoven story about Southern women. Not only is this a very well written story, this book will also make you smarter.

Wonderful! I love the way that nature is incorporated throughout. I feel closer to nature after this read...and I want to buy a farm! Highly recommended if you have the time to read it.

Beautiful book, written so poeticly! An enjoyable easy read too

Kingsolver takes a handful of characters and tells you their stories through their eyes. By the end of the book, she has tied everyone together, though when you first meet the characters you wonder how this could ever happen. She makes a compelling argument for organic farming, but not in an overly in-your-face sort of way. I recommend this book to others frequently.

I love this book so much that I have the audio, and 2 copies of a First Edition hardcover, and yet I hesitated a year before posting one of them. A grand story of love and death and nature and growing old, with and definitely without, grace. My favorite sections are titled, Old Chestnuts, and are when Nannie Rawley and Garnett Walker two neighboring, aging farmers with very, very different ideas about life and growing, take center stage. I hated for this big book to end.