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050 00$aPS3561.I496$bU57 2018
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100 1 $aKingsolver, Barbara,$eauthor.
245 10$aUnsheltered :$ba novel /$cBarbara Kingsolver.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,$cc2018.
300 $a464 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $aHow could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family's one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy, he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own. In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it? A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just publishedby Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town's powerful men. This is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at thecorner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it.
650 0$aInspiration$vFiction.
650 0$aCourage$vFiction.
650 0$aSocial change$vFiction.
650 0$aFamilies$vFiction.
651 0$aVineland (N.J.)$vFiction.