How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver was raised in Carlisle, Kentucky, by her mother and her father who was a physician. Her first love was music, and she was accepted by DePauw University on a music scholarship. When she discovered, in her words,  that “classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of [them] play ‘Blue Moon’ in a hotel lobby,” she switched her major to biology. After graduation and a year in France, she moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she lived for two decades and became a science writer and then, in 1988 burst onto the literary scene with her novel Bean Trees.  In 1994, she moved to a farm in the upper Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, in Washington County where she runs a restaurant and souvenir shop close to the Glade Springs Exit on I-81. Among her many honors, she has been awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Orange Prize in Fiction, an international award based in Great Britain. This book of poetry is her first book since 1993 that has not landed on t