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FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR "[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience" NEW YORK TIMES, '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on Demon Copperhead) You've taken Demon to your hearts; prepare for another "emotionally raw, riotously entertaining" read as you meet Livia. Here's my question: How does a person step in front of a train and leave everything right there? Livia Bohusz misses her big brother, Cyrus. But since the day he took his own life, a day that changed everything, eleven-year-old Livia has also known she has no choice but to survive. Her solace is music. A gifted pianist, Livia's only escape is the quiet rapture it brings as she practises, so when Livia starts college as a music major and scholarship prodigy, it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents. Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses, and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view: "Who is that man?" It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked. Readers love Barbara Kingsolver: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Barbara Kingsolver's way with words is beyond description!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "That's the magic of Barbara Kingsolver I guess - to make you laugh in one line and then absolutely wreck you in the next. What a genius" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I love Kingsolver because I never know where she will go next but it will always be somewhere that I've never been before" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Barbara Kingsolver has an understanding of the human condition and the abuses inflicted by an unjust society upon those who do not deserve that" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A trademark ability to tell a story with empathy" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "One of those writers who somehow can produce writing that sounds as natural as talking and yet that somehow comes out as poetry" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Kingsolver is a magician with words"