![]() The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyer nor the destroyed. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. As the novel unfolds, Codi gradually becomes aware of important political and environmental issues. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. In Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams (1990), Codi Noline, a young woman unsure of her purpose in life, returns to her hometown of Grace, Arizona, to teach high school and care for her father. Good things don't get lost.Ĭodi, here's what I've decided: the very least you can do in you life is to figure out what you hope for. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. You ask why I'm not afraid of loving and losing, and that's my answer. I think of it as one more morning in a muggy cotton field, checking the undersides of leaves to see what's been there, figuring out what to do that won't clear a path for worse problems next week. “You're thinking of revolution as a great all-or-nothing. ![]()
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