High Tide in Tucson

High Tide in Tucson is a 1995 book of twenty-five essays by author Barbara Kingsolver about family, community and ecology. The book is titled after the first essay, in which she realizes that a hermit crab she accidentally brought home while beachcombing still times its activity to the rise and fall of the tides, even in an aquarium in Tucson, Arizona where there are no oceans or tides for hundreds of miles. Some of the themes in the essay include the similarity and the relationship of humans with animals, and their proper places in nature.

Works by Barbara Kingsolver

The Bean Trees
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Homeland and Other Stories
Animal Dreams
Another America
Pigs in Heaven
High Tide in Tucson
The Poisonwood Bible
Prodigal Summer
Small Wonder
Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver)
The Lacuna
Flight Behavior
Unsheltered
Demon Copperhead