Codi Noline has returned home to Grace, Arizona to a job she's not she she wants and to confront a father who she isn't close to, but is worried about. Staying with her best friend, Codi meets Loyd Peregrina (well, she meets him again --- they dated a few times in high school) and comes face to face with her own past. Grappling with her past, her growing relationship with Loyd, and the battle to save Grace from an impending environmental catastrophe, Codi has plenty to deal with. Usually, she'd rely on her sister, Hallie, to get her through the tough times. However, Hallie has gone to Nicaragua, braving dangerous conditions to help farmers. Doing her best to stay, all Codi wants to do is run away.
I read this book about once every year, just to revisit it. I like the characters and their development, and how Kingsolver tells the story with some flashbacks, so you get an enhanced perspective on the story. I also enjoy how thoughtful the story is. Codi is struggling to reconcile her own past, now that she's in the town she grew up in, so there's conflict there. At the same time, there are the very realistic dangers of the environmental disaster that Grace is trying to avoid, as well as the danger that Codi's sister faces in Nicaragua. Loyd isn't here to save Codi but instead, makes her reconsider some of her past and how she sees her future. Each time I read this book it's a combination of revisiting somewhere familiar and also discovering things I hadn't noticed or remembered previously.
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