by Barbara Kingsolver, 2000
Moth Love – Lusa & Cole Widener – Cole is a farmer, falls in love and marries Lusa, a bug scientist, loves moths. Cole dies in trucking accident. Lusa stays on farm, raises goats, comes to love and accept Cole’s family and Cole’s family comes to love and accept her.
Predators – Deanna Wolfe and Eddie Bondo. She’s a 47 year-old forest ranger in the mountains of Tennessee. Loves all wildlife, especially coyotes. Eddie Bondo, traveling from Wyoming, sheep rancher, hates coyotes. They fall in love. He leaves her, pregnant.
Old Chestnuts – Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley. He’s a stubborn 80 year- old trying to breed a blight-resistant chestnut. She’s an organic apply farmer, 75 years old. They live next door to each other. He is all for using chemicals to kill bugs and weeds. He’s so mad at her all the time. Finally, he and she become friends. He gives her the shingles in his barn and thanks her for the blackberry pie, his favorite. He starts to see the beauty in nature.