Good Reading favourite author, Barbara Kingsolver, has announced she will be publishing a new book in October this year.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Barbara Kingsolver’s next book will be a picture book for children and created in conjunction with her daughter Lily Kingsolver who is an environmental educator
ABOUT THE BOOK
When humans occupy wild land, wild animals are forced out of their wilderness habitats and have no choice but to move into suburbs and cities, which can be frightening to many people. Coyote’s Wild Home offers readers insight into these fascinating animals and how to safely co-exist with them.
Coyote’s Wild Home is set in the Appalachian region in the southeastern US during Diana and Grandfather’s hike through the woods to their campsite. As the two walk through the forest and then fish for their supper, they see signs throughout such as different kinds of tracks and scat studded with fish scales – demonstrating that the forest is home to a variety of creatures. Grandfather explains that it is important that the eco-system maintains the proper balance of predators and their prey. Coyotes, Grandfather notes, are predators that play an essential role in maintaining that balance.
Meanwhile, two coyotes, Auntie and Coyote Pup, make their way through the same forest, hunting for food on Coyote Pup’s first such excursion under Auntie’s supervision. They occasionally pick up the scent of human beings in the vicinity. As the two prowl, gobbling up mice, a vole, berries, and other delicacies, Auntie reflects on the changing nature of the forests. Auntie’s world is shrinking because humans are cutting down trees and building up the land, forcing coyotes and other woodland creatures to hunt for their food increasingly close to where humans live.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barbara Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family’s attempts to eat locally.
Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments. Each of her books published since 1993 has been on the New York Times bestsellers list. Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011, UK’s Orange Prize for Fiction 2010, for The Lacuna, and the National Humanities Medal. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Awardand the Pulitzer Prize. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Demon Copperhead. After winning for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperhead in 2023, Kingsolver became the first author to win the Women’s Prize for Fiction twice.
In 2000, Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support “literature of social change”.
