the unbearable persistence of hope Author: Barbara Kingsolver Copy Quote More from Barbara Kingsolver “Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry b…” “Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business t…” “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and ev…” “A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The …”