Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the countryside, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. Murder, mayhem, and a fine man are wreaking havoc on her birthday, but will her sleuthing leave her alive to see past thirty-five? A complicated murder investigation unearths a closet full of skeletons Amanda thought were long gone. She needs to spill her guts, but not on the handsome lead detective's alligator shoes-especially if she wants him to ask her out. Instead, she finds herself at the scene of a crime, and she just may know who the killer is.
But with her birthday approaching and no current prospects for fulfilling her dream of having a family, Amanda Bell Brown decides to get out and paint the town-in her drop-dead red birthday dress. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver For Amanda Bell Brown, just living her life is murder How's a churchgoing gumshoe supposed to grapple with keeping the faith, finding a man, and turning thirty-five when she keeps tripping in her high heels over mysteries-and not just the God kind? Life as a forensic psychologist isn't quite as cool as it looks on prime-time TV.
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