![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes it feels like the only person who even comes close to understanding Calpurnia is her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist who studies everything from distilling whisky out of pecans to microscopic river bugs. The year is 1899, the place Texas, and the problem is 11-year-old Calpurnia Virginia Tate, who is supposed to want to cook, sew and attract a future beau - not play in the dirt, examine insects and, most suspect of all, read Darwin’s controversial On The Origin of Species. ![]()
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