Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver

It’s not as good as Poisonwood Bible, lol -- poor Kingsolver must be tired of all her books having to live up to PB, whether they were written before it or not.

Here there are three or four interrelated stories which are all carefully crafted to show how people are like plants (or, in one case, animals) -- they need a good environment, a sex life, maybe a trellis -- and the clever intertwining of these stories is set in a lush and evocative landscape, so it is an aesthetically pleasing read. The symbolism’s a bit too pat, though.

-- Henri Rousseau, Le rêve