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“This is all going to scare us to death,” she said. “You and me. But we’re still going to have to do it.”
a bud colony on the neighbors’ dead peach orchard.
flocked
The resurrection and the life,
Enveloped with the souls of dead children.
In the known world, anyway, it meant that.
Simile metaphor
Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future.
In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them.
The illusions
Today was the day. Every day was the day.
drinking light.
For the souls of dead children, they were good at planning ahead.
Haha
Haha
Haha
if that one hadn’t come and gone, there’d be no Preston. He cleared the way, with Dad and me.
?? Qustion
How to reach into the river of all knowledge and pull out your own darn fish.
Haha
The monthly payment was going to be her biggest expense, after rent.
“I’m going to college.
Haha
If that list was the wave of the future, as he’d declared it, her kids were way out ahead of the game. Thriftiness skills: check.
Haha
Alternation is supposed to make you sturdy. You and Cordie will grow up ready for anything.”
Kinship systems.
run away from it.
Fight or flight
Haha
“You and Cordie are going to grow up in some deep crap, let me tell you. You won’t even get a choice. You’ll have to be different.”
a glimpse of strange fortune.
“What if I want everything to stay how it is?” he asked. “Oh, man. That’s the bite. Grown-ups want that too. Honestly? That’s what makes them crap the bed and stay in it. I’m not even kidding.”
a state of inflated edginess, as if she had become suddenly too large in her skin.
Simile
Ovid’s
That sheep must have had a nose for the terrain.
Haha
the reckless thrill of being at sea.
Simile - extended snd useful
improbably serene,
the buoyant command of the air
Fantasy
Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward, she thought, words from the book of Job,
Bible
Simile
Simile
an airborne zootic force flying out in formation, as if to war.
Simile
Maybe a million.
rested alive like a heartbeat
Simile - also the heartbeat of the lamb
the exodus.
They would gather on other fields and risk other odds, probably no better or worse than hers.
the fire bursts of wings reflected across water, a merging of flame and flood.
Revelation 21
Kingsolver established the
PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.
Her husband, Steven Hopp, teaches environmental studies.
Iron Mountain Review,
I grew up running wild in the woods with little adult supervision, studied biology as a college student, and then went to graduate school in biology.
