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Barbara Kingsolver's World: Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century by Linda Wagner-Martin

jessreads82's review

5.0

Barbara Kingsolver is my favorite author, and so I am bound to like any book reviewing her work. However, I liked how Barbara Kingsolver's World viewed her work from an ecological, feminist, racial, political, and community based perspective. I have read many reviewers discredit Kingsolver due to her obvious political viewpoints on climate change and government, and so I found it refreshing to read a book about her work that praises this aspect.

Barbara Kingsolver's World reviewed all of her work in depth, and discussed the issues she was bringing forth, as well as how she discussed her work in the media and on her webpage. I found the book to be very well researched, and it enlightened me to a lot of things I did not notice while reading her novels.

There was one thing that I disagreed with the author on, and that is the last chapter of The Poisonwood Bible and what it represents. I have always read that chapter through the eyes of Ruth May looking down from the trees, as that is the place she passed away. The author had a different viewpoint. That is what makes literature so special though; the ability to read the same thing and view it in different ways.

Overall, this is a must-read only for those die-hard Barbara Kingsolver fans like myself.