When Codi meets an attractive Apache named Lloyd Peregrina, he tells her, “if you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.” The novel features Kingsolver’s signature narrative style of alternating perspectives throughout the story. Along the way, Codi reunites with her old high school friend, Emelina, and takes a job teaching biology at her former high-school. While Codi has a strained relationship with Homer, she finds it in her heart to show love, compassion and forgiveness. The story follows Cosima “Codi” Noline, a beleaguered woman who returns to her hometown of Grace, Arizona to care for her father Homer, who is inflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. section with additional insights from Barbara Kingsolver, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.Animal Dreams is the 1990 novel written by American author Barbara Kingsolver. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life.īlending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments.
Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. "Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime just like people do. A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul." -New York Daily Newsįrom Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world
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