Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of April 8th
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It is the 98th day of the year, leaving 267 days remaining in 2022
Kingsolver (one of my favorite authors) writes about people and their environments, both natural and man-made. Her stories have people coming together for social and environmental justice, and her work is often uplifting and optimistic.
She also has written non-fiction about women in the labor movement, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, and about her family's attempts to live off the land in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
But it is her fiction that has gained her most acclaim. She insists her novels are not biographical, but they are connected to places she has lived in and is familiar with. Her debut novel, The Bean Trees, focuses on a teen-age girl who leaves her rural Kentucky home following high school graduation to travel out West. Along the way, she meets a woman and baby; the woman soon disappears, leaving the girl to care for the Native American child.
A later work, Pigs in Heaven, is a sequel in which the now young woman defends her adoption of the child.
Kingsolver was raised in rural Carlisle, Ky., and attended college in Arizona.
She also spent part of her childhood in the Congo, the setting for The Poisonwood Bible, about a family of missionaries during a time of the war of independence in the central African country. It has proved to be among her most popular works.
Her most recent novel is Unsheltered, a story about two families who lived in the same house during different periods of time, and their struggles to keep their home and keep it safe. She also has a book of poetry, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons, about life and learning.
Her newest novel, Demon Copperhead, is planned to be published in the fall of 2022.
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