Animal Dreams | Literary Precedents
Kingsolver's depiction of the women in a community banding together for a social cause bears a resemblance to the author's nonfiction book Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. The fictional town of Grace is similar to Clifton, Arizona, where the wives of mineworkers picketed to help their husbands receive fair wages and benefits.
The themes of loss, alienation, and the need for symbolic renewal and fertility that are explored in Animal Dreams recall Native American fiction such as Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony. Animal Dreams has...
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