It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
—Barbara Kingsolver in The Poisonwood Bible
—Barbara Kingsolver in The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she...
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.
—Heather Davis in The Clearing