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Barbara Kingsolver: Unsheltered (2018, Faber & Faber, Limited)

480 pages

English language

Published Nov. 26, 2018 by Faber & Faber, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-571-34698-1
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4 stars (3 reviews)

4 editions

Disjointed

2 stars

I feel like this could and should have been two different books. Vineland, to me, wasn’t a strong enough setting to tie together the characters across the different time settings; and the themes to link the two time frames felt tenuous and a little preachy. Kingsolvers refusal to name trump when clearly talking about trump seemed pointless. A good read in the last quarter but took a long time to get there.

Subjects

  • Fiction, family life
  • Fiction, historical
  • New jersey, fiction