High Tide in Tucson, Barbara Kingsolver
High Tide in Tucson, Barbara Kingsolver
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High Tide in Tucson
Essays from Now or Never

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver

Abridged: 2 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 11/08/2005

Synopsis

""Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times."" — Milwaukee Sentinel""Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend."" —New York Times Book ReviewIn this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver turns to her favored literary terrain to explore themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction. In High Tide in Tucson, Kingsolver is defiant, funny, and courageously honest.

About Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote’s Wild Home, a children’s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Oceana2602 on June 22, 2008

I try not to do this often, but in this case, the New York Times Book Review review on the back of my paperback edition, really says everything about these 25 essays by Barbara Kingsolver that you need to know: Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend. ...She speaks i......more

Goodreads review by Jim on January 14, 2025

Barbara Kingsolver has 25 essays in this book, touching on the natural world, her travels, her family, and about writing. One of my favorite essays is "Infernal Paradise," in which she writes about Hawaii. She describes it as a story of "unceasing invasion." Waves of invasive species have come in to......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on July 31, 2022

Subtitle: Essays From Now Or Never Kingsolver was already a successful novelist when this collection of essays was published. She relates her thoughts on family, home, politics, nature, social issues and personal responsibility with humor, compassion, wit and integrity. Her training as a scientist is......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on October 28, 2007

I read this collection of essays years ago, and remember how thought provoking I found them. Barbara Kingsolver is, of course an excellent writer; her fiction is beautiful. The great thing about High Tide in Tuscon is actually getting a glimpse of what's inside this writer's head - the everyday thin......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on December 16, 2007

From the title essay: Embrace your own biology. Don't beat yourself up for acting like the human animal that you are. The rest of the essays: I laughed out loud more times than I can say, and I felt more connected to humanity as I read them. This is a book I go back to and re-read over and over becau......more

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