New York, NY: Harper Collins (1995)

Limited Edition. Signed.

Fine in dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Housed in decorative slip case.

In High Tide in Tucson, Barbara Kingsolver returns to her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world.

The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom.