Small Wonder Essays

In this collection of twenty-two articulate essays, the acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life, while also examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in the world. Written during a turbulent time, the book is considered an extended love song to the world we still have. Kingsolver contemplates diverse subjects such as the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, civil rights, and the future of a nation. Her writings are grounded in the belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that the answers may lie in both those places. The book is a hopeful, often eloquent, and occasionally hilarious examination of humanity and what we might yet make of ourselves.

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