This is Barbara Kingsolver at her absolute best and there is something profoundly compelling about the women she writes. I loved this story and all the characters in it, loved the voices and the history and just how amazingly everything came together.
It's a difficult book to capture, because the actual plot is both incredibly present, but also quite irrelevant to the people whose lives are being written about. And its Kingsolver's people who make you love her books.