He’s also facing hostility from his community because of his progressive ideas on science and specifically Darwin.
Thatcher Greenwood, the protagonist of the parallel 19th century story, is overwhelmed by the same crumbling house a century and a half before. In the case of Willa Knox, the irretrievable collapse of the house she’s recently moved to is just one of the unexpected calamities she has to face as a fifty odd year old woman who’s done all the right things in life. Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel, Unsheltered, examines in two parallel narratives what happens to people when their known securities, the fabric of their existence, their shelter, is threatened.
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