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Title: Not Kingsolver's Best
Review: A few years ago I read The Poisonwood Bible, which sent me on a quest for other books by Barbara Kingsolver. It was that good. I took a break for a few years and now read Prodigal Summer. I'm not sure if I was expecting better, but this book was truly mediocre. There are three stories that are intertwined in rather predictable ways. The story and the characters are not to my liking. The treatment of women as somehow superior beings, deeply in touch with the natural world and always intimately connected with their environment, turns me cold. Women who I know are much more down to earth than Kingsolver's Mother Earth types. That said, the writing is good and the story moves along at a rapid pace. Prodigal Summer is not a washout, but it is disappointing.
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