Prodigal Summer

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-11 Pages: 464 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin. Deanna Wolfe. a reclusive wildlife biologist. watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region . She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured. solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain. Lusa Maluf Landowski. a bookish city girl turned farmers wife. finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road. a pair of elderly feuding neighbours tend their respective farms and wrangle about God. pesticides. and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.Over the course of one humid summer. these characters find their conne...