One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2012, this novel from the Orange Prize winning author of The Lacuna opens with a miraculous vision. Dellarobia Turnbow gave up her dream of seeing the world when she became pregnant at 17, and after a decade tending children on a failing Appalachian farm, she seeks some escape through a tryst with a younger man. But on her way to meet him she is struck by a shocking sight—a forest valley filled with what looks like a lake of silent red fire—and once she tells her story, she finds the world now coming to her. Barbara Kingsolver bares the tarnished yet rich humanity of her novel's inhabitants and the modern complexities of rural life.