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Codi Noline returns to the small Arizona town of Grace to care for her aging father, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Her sister Hallie has gone to Nicaragua to help farmers. Back in Grace, Codi rediscovers the community she always felt she didn't belong to, reconnects with a childhood love, and gets drawn into a local fight against a mining company that is poisoning the town's water. Barbara Kingsolver's second novel is structured around memory and the limits of what we know about our own past — Codi thinks she understands her childhood and her family; she's wrong about most of it. Warm and politically engaged, with Kingsolver's characteristic talent for grounding environmentalism in specific people.