I am terribly late to the party here, but I wanted to throw in a few things: -very, very strong seconds/thirds/whatevers for Mary Doria Russell and Connie Willis, which you are probably already sold on -Barbara Kingsolver! Anything of hers, really, but especially Prodigal Summer and her collections of essays, High Tide in Tucson and Small Wonder. PS is full of this lyrical, sleepy beauty overlaying human drama, and then it all coalesces in to a marvelous overarching theme that gets clearer and more nuanced with each reading. I love it. I'll never stop rereading. And the essays are pure Kingsolver, being observant and funny and intelligent and poignant. This woman really knows what it means to be human. -pegkerr's The Wild Swans. It's the fairy tale "The Wild Swans" told in seventeenth century England intercut with 1981 New York's gay community during the rise of AIDS. Heartbreaking and gorgeous.
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-very, very strong seconds/thirds/whatevers for Mary Doria Russell and Connie Willis, which you are probably already sold on
-Barbara Kingsolver! Anything of hers, really, but especially Prodigal Summer and her collections of essays, High Tide in Tucson and Small Wonder. PS is full of this lyrical, sleepy beauty overlaying human drama, and then it all coalesces in to a marvelous overarching theme that gets clearer and more nuanced with each reading. I love it. I'll never stop rereading. And the essays are pure Kingsolver, being observant and funny and intelligent and poignant. This woman really knows what it means to be human.
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