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Prodigal Summer intertwines three stories set in rural Appalachia over a single summer: Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist, navigates her passion for coyotes and a complicated relationship with a younger hunter; Lusa Maluf Landowski, a widow, struggles to keep her deceased husband's farm; and elderly Garnett Walker III aims to revive the American chestnut, clashing with his progressive neighbor, Nannie Rawley. This book includes sensitive topics such as terminal illness and the death of a child.