Barbara Kingsolver is coming to Tucson to talk about her new novel

Writer Barbara King Solver has lived in Tucson for about twenty years and we have installed several books here, so we basically adopted her.

"I think that I grew up when I was young is Tucson," she told the Arizona Daily Star in 2012. "I became a writer there, I still want Tucson, I want you to forgive and leave."

Kingsolver received her master's degree from the University of Arizona and wrote several books in Tucson, including "Bean Tree" and "Tucson's Climax". She left Tucson to travel to Virginia in 2004.

But she returns to town to advertise her new novel "untouched" 7 points. October 27 (Saturday) at Berger Performing Arts Center of 1200 W Speedway

On October 16, "Minor" appeared and told the story of middle-aged woman Willa Knox. The magazine where she works is closed down and the university hiring her husband is closed. Their two adult children and Willa's father-in-law also lived in a desolated house with their families. So she began to study the history of the house. Of course, there is a story. Read the full overview on the HarperCollins Publishers website

Antigone Books at Fourth Avenue store is organizing this event. In order to purchase a ticket, it is $ 12 in advance, $ 25 for the door, $ 29.99 for the Antigone to book "Unsheltered". Books and tickets are sold separately.

Tucson's "climax" is 25 papers on families, communities, and ecology written by writer Barbara Kingswald in 1995. The title of the book is after the first article, there is no ocean in Arizona Aquarium in Tucson, Arizona There is still a tidal ups and downs in the aquarium, but she knows that she lives in her crab. Hundreds of miles of tide. Some of the topics in this article include similarities and relationships between humans and animals, and the proper proper place.

Finally, talented writers can summarize all these - nature, place, society - with hint of nostalgia for memories. Barbara Kingsolver clarifies this in the title article of her collection "High Tide in Tucson". Given the thermal influence of my transplant from Kentucky's countryside to Tucson, Arizona, she revealed that she still heard "secret tide" at a small river house - I drank Forcibly tomato growing in a strange backyard due to disasters

The article by Barbara Kingsolver is like a figurative dialogue that distinguishes readers from favorite novelists. In her novel, Kingsolver has the advantage of inventing characters and stories you can love or hate, but they are like this; you do not want to discuss with them. But in this large essay episode, she is talking about herself, revealing details, stories, and opinions that make you think like a neighbor.

This article is based on her essay "Climax of Tucson" where Barbara Kings solver shares her beliefs and commitments, especially in families, communities, common interests, cultural diversity, children's world, and child rearing It is. Allow or hurry to accept all the miracles, beauties, threats and anger that life and the earth can bring. It also includes many aspects and subtle differences that make life worthwhile; she can learn from her experience of many life lessons about raising children. Her excerpt is very personal and this intimacy makes her story more authentic and reliable. It is this honesty and openness that warms the story. The author is known as a defender of nature. She respects the other inhabitants of the world very much.