

males drumming up business,'' Deanna explains. ''Every single thing you hear in the woods right now is just nothing but. The two eye each other warily and banter about the birdsĪnd the bees. Eddie Bondo, a 28-year-old Wyoming hunter with a hatred of coyotes that borders on religion and a taste for middle-aged women with long legs and salty tongues.

Everywhere you looked, something was fighting for time, for light, the kiss of pollen, a connection of sperm and egg and another chance.'' By, Deanna has found her own chance ''Here and now,'' Kingsolver writes, ''spring

Wildlife biologist on the far side of 40, is patrolling the woods on Zebulon Mountain, a wild patch of southern Appalachia where she works as a ranger. As the book opens, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive
