

Homeland and Other Stories
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver
Abridged: 2 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/08/2005
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Women
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver
Abridged: 2 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/08/2005
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Women
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote’s Wild Home, a children’s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Leave it to my mother. Every time I get to the point where I've almost relegated her to the lands of the unenlightened, she pops out of the woodwork and shows off a surprising amount of taste; for a Baptist minister who proudly voted for George W. Bush and thinks Carrot Top is funny, my mom occasion......more
Kingsolver is nothing if not political. She writes stories with a purpose. Lots of poetry, but no puffery. Her characters are strugglers not stragglers. She is of the South, but fights its good ole boy ways. In each story, the main character, most always female, fights, fights as if her life depends......more
Totally loved it. A totally new world I know almost nothing about which was told beautifully and strongly in just few pages. This is how a short story should be.......more
I recommend this to those who can pick up on the subtle things as many of these stories are more impressions or snapshots of life -- what people are like, how they feel, what they want, etc -- rather than big, exciting plots. This book was lovely. I could relate to every single character in this book......more
I was so conflicted about how to rate this book: some of the stories were definitely 5 star quality, while others I would rate at a 2 or 3. In the end, I decided that the great stories outweighed the meh stories, and so it got four stars. The title story, "Homeland" is extrememly good, although my f......more