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Article: `Small Wonder' by Barbara Kingsolver; HarperCollins.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 10, 2002
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Despite all appearances to the contrary, these are not necessarily the worst of times, novelist Barbara Kingsolver reassures us in "Small Wonder," an essay she was asked to write in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
"My generation's parents said it during the Cuban missile crisis, and THEIR parents said it after Pearl Harbor. Mothers said it as they watched their sons ride off to fight in the Civil War. ... The day Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, or Gandhi, or Jesus, or Monsenor Oscar Romero, or the day the Buddhist monks immolated themselves in Vietnam while the stunned world watched _ all of these were the worst there could ever be."
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