In alternating chapters, Kingsolver gives us Codi and her father, Homer, adroitly melding two viewpoints of one history. She begins a complicated romance with a former boyfriend, corresponds with her sister, Hallie, who is kidnapped and then murdered in Nicaragua, tries to convince her father that his declining mental abilities are interfering with his work as a physician, and attempts to save the town from the evil Black Mountain Mining Company, which is poisoning the river and threatening the region's future.
As usual, Codi is seeking to avoid life, but instead she finds plenty of it. In this skillfully told novel by the author of The Bean Trees, a young woman returns to her hometown to care for her father and, without knowing it, herself.
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