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“Watching my father, I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
— May 20, 2026 05:01AM
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“I’ve been won to the side of schoolteachers and nurses, and lost all allegiance to plastic explosives. No homeland I can claim as mine would blow up a struggling, distant country’s hydroelectric dams and water pipes, inventing darkness and dysentery in the service of its ideals”
— May 23, 2026 06:02AM
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May 20, 2026 06:47AM
man this book is so good. i first read it in high school when it was newly published and i've been a kingsolver fan ever since.
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Her character writing is astonishing!
if you haven't read prodigal summer, it's my fave of hers, more amazing characters and so gorgeously written. highly recommend. :)
Thank you, I will put it on my list
