Description

From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman’s struggle to find her place in the world.

At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, ‘If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life’.

Filled with lyrical writing, Native American legends, a tender love story, and Codi’s quest for identity, Animal Dreams is literary fiction at its very best.

Publisher Review

ANIMAL DREAMS is one of those rare novels I could not put down and left me wondering whether to go back to the beginning or simply anticipate the next product from this woman's pen * LOS ANGELES TIMES * If you enjoy prose, you'll treasure ANIMAL DREAMS. A beautiful, memorable novel full of scenes and images that linger in the mind * Tony Hillerman * A rich, compassionate book * Alice Hoffman * Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent...Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book * Chicago Tribune * An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers * Cosmopolitan * Rich, complex, witty...This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time * Washington Post * Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind * New York Times Book Review * A rich, compassionate book * Alice Hoffman *