Barbara Kingsolver's books of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction are widely translated and have won numerous literary awards, including the Women's Prize for Fiction, awarded to The Lacuna; Flight Behaviour was also shortlisted. She is the founder of the PEN/Bellwether Prize, and in 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, her country's highest honour for service through the arts. Prior to her writing career, she studied and worked as a biologist. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Taylor Greer droht ihre sechsjährige Adoptivtochter, das Indianermädchen Turtle, zu verlieren, seit eine ehrgeizige Stammesanwältin Turtle zu ihrem Cherokee-Stamm zurückbringen will. Taylor flieht mit der geliebten Tochter quer durch den Südwesten von Amerika, begleitet von ihrer junggebliebenen Mutter, die alle Hebel in Bewegung setzt, Turtle behalten zu können.

Barbara Kingsolver zeigt in dieser Road Novel mit viel Mitgefühl und Witz, wie sich Mutterliebe und die Bindung an kulturelle Herkunft versöhnen lassen.

Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.

Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a man's dramatic rescue. The mother and adopted daughter duo soon become nationwide heroes - even landing themselves a guest appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions stemming right back to her Cherokee roots. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her guardian, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past.

Embark on a unforgettable road trip from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind.