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"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
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0 0As of today, I can say that I have finally read all of Barbara Kingsolver’s novels. It’s taken me 14 years - but we are finally caught up!
What I love about Kingsolver’s books is how she writes about nature, grief, environmental change, science, and human relationships. Animal Dreams illustrates these themes beautifully.
Codi Nolime comes home to Grace, Arizona, to take care of her father with advanced Alzheimer’s and learns that the nearby mining company is threatening to divert the town’s river after years of poisoning the local watershed. Meanwhile, Codi’s sister is doing agricultural support work in Nicaragua and facing increasing violence from American backed Contras.
While home, Codi tries to learn more about her mother who died during her sister’s birth and archive her family’s history from her father’s moments of lucidity and the local “Stitch & Bitch” club.
This book was heartbreaking on so many levels and left me wanting more (another theme with all of Kingsolver’s novels).
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