Animal Dreams

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


"Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime, just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silt environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful ove story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments."
~back cover

A jigsaw puzzle of a book -- people and events and history moving in and out of the frame, and the whole picture slowly emerging. Remarkable for the scope of 21st century life it covers, but also a microcosm of life-as-it-used-to-be, and probably still is in small towns off the beaten path. As long as they don't have television, that is ...



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