6/22/2023 0 Comments Barbara kingsolver unsheltered![]() ![]() "Teach them to see evidence for themselves and not to fear it." ![]() "Your charge is to lead them out of doors," Treat reassures as they rest after a day spent in a swamp looking for a rare fern. Thatcher, a teacher, is being hounded by Captain Landis for trying to educate his students about evolution. ![]() Kingsolver, in what is one of the first major works of fiction about the Trump era, is here to tell us why – or, at least, what now?īack in the 19th century, Thatcher Greenwood develops a close bond with his neighbour, Mary Treat, a character based on a real woman scientist and pen pal of Darwin's. It is the eve of the election of "the Bullhorn", a man who says he could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and people would still vote for him", and America is falling apart. The house is in desperate need of repairs, but the family, surviving on a single, small academic salary, is broke. Dusty's mother, Zeke's girlfriend, has committed suicide. ![]()
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