Bonnie Jo Campbell and Barbara Kingsolver

Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River is “an odyssey—full of adventure, heartbreak, terror and extraordinary beauty,” wrote Laura Kasischke. “Riveting and lyrical, familiar and mythical, a page-turner and a poem, you will not want to miss a word.” Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel is Flight Behavior. Her work “can be enjoyed sheerly for the music of its passages on nature, archaeology, food and friendship; or for its portraits of real and invented people; or for its harmonious choir of voices,” wrote The New York Times. But the fuller value of Kingsolver’s [writing] lies in its call to conscience and connection.”