Jose Uranga

Great writing by Kingsolver as she indicts the entire drug dealing industry by exploring the human tragedy created by it.

Despite the "space aliens must have done it" surmise, the novel forces one to see life not as durational but as qualitative. And maybe that was the purpose of the aliens' gift to humanity- either we destroy our short stringers out of fear or we rise above our base nature and learn to love each other, warts and all.