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    Homeland and Other Stories
    Homeland and Other Stories
    Homeland and Other Stories
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Homeland and Other Stories

    Written by Barbara Kingsolver

    Narrated by Barbara Kingsolver

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    New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver delivers a collection of 12 original tales in Homeland and Other Stories that are every bit as emotionally resonant, humorous, and heartfelt as her much-beloved novels.

    In settings ranging from eastern Kentucky to northern California and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Barbara Kingsolver uses her distinctive voice and vast knowledge of human nature to address some of her favorite themes: the importance of personal and cultural heritage; how the past effects the present and the enduring power of love. Kingsolver’s characters, many single mothers, struggle to make sense of their lives and find meaning in a difficult world.

    Praised for her memorable characters and poetic prose, Kingsolver again proves why she is a literary force to be reckoned with.

    This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateNov 8, 2005
    ISBN9780060894610
    Author

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. At various times she has lived in England, France, and the Canary Islands, and has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico, and South America. She spent two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides. Her books, in order of publication, are: The Bean Trees (1988), Homeland (1989), Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike (1989), Animal Dreams (1990), Another America (1992), Pigs in Heaven (1993), High Tide in Tucson (1995), The Poisonwood Bible (1998), Prodigal Summer (2000), Small Wonder (2002), Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, with photographer Annie Griffiths (2002), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007), The Lacuna (2009), Flight Behavior (2012), Unsheltered (2018), How To Fly (In 10,000 Easy Lessons) (2020), Demon Copperhead (2022), and coauthored with Lily Kingsolver, Coyote's Wild Home (2023). She served as editor for Best American Short Stories 2001.  Kingsolver was named one the most important writers of the 20th Century by Writers Digest, and in 2023 won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Demon Copperhead. In 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages and have been adopted into the core curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation. Critical acclaim for her work includes multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, a James Beard award, two-time Oprah Book Club selection, and the national book award of South Africa, among others. She was awarded Britain's prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) for both Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna, making Kingsolver the first author in the history of the prize to win it twice. In 2011, Kingsolver was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has two daughters, Camille (born in 1987) and Lily (1996). She and her husband, Steven Hopp, live on a farm in southern Appalachia where they raise an extensive vegetable garden and Icelandic sheep. 

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    • 5/5
      Calming stories of largely rural life told by a master storyteller.
    • 4/5
      some wonderful stories inside this book. very strong mother theme.
    • 3/5
      Mixed bag. I think Kingsolver is a better novelist than a short story writer. A number of these stories are brief glimpses of ordinary people's lives, with no great insight, tales of how much we love someone despite disagreements."Homeland" was great: told by a young girl, remembering her Indian grandma, learning the right way to act. GranMam's reaction to the trip to Cherokee is telling."Bereaved Apartments" is a good study of what dishonesties we are willing to close our eyes to, and a sympathetic portrait of an ex-con young woman."Jump-Up Day" is an interesting story about an orphan in the Caribbean who meets up with an obeah man.u"Why I Am A Danger To The Public" tells of a woman strike leader, and how the corporation treats the workers with contempt.
    • 4/5
      I like the children narrative that most of these stories adopt, and also, most of these stories revolving around children discovering the social injustice in the world, and question them. I enjoy the small town, nature settings and how the story is full and complete, instead of just a snap-shot of something bigger.
    • 5/5
      I love everything by Babara Kingsolver and this was no exception!
    • 4/5
      Not as good as her novels but, like her longer works believable stories about real people. In some ways these stories remind me of Steinbeck's short stories.
    • 5/5
      It felt very simple and then all of a sudden she would write and these punch you in the gut moments. Beautifully written!
    • 4/5
      some wonderful stories inside this book. very strong mother theme.
    • 3/5
      This collection of stories made for interesting reading but I don't think they will stick with me at all. I seem to prefer Kingsolver's novels. I read these stories one at a time over the course of several weeks. They are rather gloomy or something like that and one at a time was manageable. Several stories underwhelmed me, and several I thought were very good, like the one about the woman and the mine strike.
    • 4/5
      Barbara Kingsolver is my favorite author. Even though her short stories aren’t as strong as her novels, they are evocative and make you wish for more.