Animal Dreams (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Kingsolver
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Family or family life, Self-discovery, Memory, Parents and children, Protests or demonstrations, 1980’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Fathers, Sisters, Small-town life, Mines, miners, or mining, Southwest, Deserts, Alzheimer’s disease
- Locales: Grace, AZ
In ANIMAL DREAMS, her fourth book in three years, Barbara Kingsolver adds further luster to her rising reputation as a sharp-eyed regional writer with a penchant for social issues and universal themes that resound far beyond her American Southwest locale.
ANIMAL DREAMS is chiefly a novel about coming home. Returning to her small hometown of Grace, Arizona, after a ten-year absence, thirty-two-year-old Cosima (Codi) Noline must come to terms with her tangled personal and family past. Codi has finished medical school, but she has abandoned her career after panicking during a...
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