Small Wonder: Essays [Paperback]

In her new essay collection, the beloved author ofHigh Tide in Tucsonbrings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have.

Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places.

Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive,Small Wonderis a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

Observant, imaginative, and both lucid and impassioned.This book of essays by Barbara Kingsolver is like a visit from a cherished old friend.Kingsolver possesses a rare depth of understanding of natures complex mechanisms.A delightful, challenging, and wonderfully informative book.Essays & [of] great skill and wisdom.