Critical Praise

"Environmental crisis in Grace, political crisis in Nicaragua, the interior crisis of Codi's inability to trust life -- Kingsolver adroitly plays plot against plot, theme against theme....Animal Dreams addresses heroism. Codi considers her sister a saint, a grand-scale heroine, and discredits herself. But she finally comes to see each of us as responsible for daily heroism, in our seemingly ordinary acts and choices. Just as, in Animal Dreams, ecology is no longer an abstract concept but a crisis outside our window, Kingsolver reveals that heroes are no longer beyond reach, unattainable. They are us."

——Chicago Tribune