Prodigal Summer

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off—guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self—assured, solitary life. Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer’s wife, finds herse...