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Title: Great Setting, Fascinating Characters
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading this Kingsolver novel. The lush setting was so wonderfully described, as were the farms and the problems the farmers faced. The characters were well-developed, from the youngest to the oldest, and there was more humor than I usually find in a Kingsolver book. The lives and problems and conflicts were all intertwined, as is everything in the physical world. Kingsolver's sentences are beautiful, her chapters well-constructed. There is, however, a slight overtone of lecturing or preachiness in this book. It's slight, but it's there, and each time I encountered it, my feeling that I was within the world of the characters was disrupted: I came out of the story and into the real world. I do, however, highly recommend this book: in reading it, you enter another world, of present-day people who live close to the land and are attuned to it in ways that most of us are not.
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