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    "annotation": "<p><span>In her bestselling novel&nbsp;</span><em>Prodigal Summer</em><span>, Barbara Kingsolver weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.</span><br /><span>Award-winning author of&nbsp;</span><em>Flight Behavior</em><span>,&nbsp;</span><em>The Lacuna</em><span>, and&nbsp;</span><em>The Poisonwood Bible</em><span>, Kingsolver here introduces a wildlife biologist whose reclusive life in a mountain cabin is disrupted by a young hunter; a city girl-turned-farmer&rsquo;s wife who must decide whether or not to fight for the land she now inhabits; and a pair of feuding, elderly neighbors who forge a bond neither of them could have predicted.</span><br /><span>As the humid summer progresses, the characters grow closer to each other and the nature that surrounds them in this beautifully-written work that helped solidify Barbara Kingsolver&rsquo;s place in the literary firmament.</span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>In her bestselling novel&nbsp;</span><em>Prodigal Summer</em><span>, Barbara Kingsolver weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.<br /></span><br /><span>Award-winning author of&nbsp;</span><em>Flight Behavior</em><span>,&nbsp;</span><em>The Lacuna</em><span>, and&nbsp;</span><em>The Poisonwood Bible</em><span>, Kingsolver here introduces a wildlife biologist whose reclusive life in a mountain cabin is disrupted by a young hunter; a city girl-turned-farmer&rsquo;s wife who must decide whether or not to fight for the land she now inhabits; and a pair of feuding, elderly neighbors who forge a bond neither of them could have predicted.</span><br /><span>As the humid summer progresses, the characters grow closer to each other and the nature that surrounds them in this beautifully-written work that helped solidify Barbara Kingsolver&rsquo;s place in the literary firmament.</span></p>",
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