![]() It is 2016 and Willa and her husband have just lost their jobs in Virginia - Willa as a magazine editor and her husband as a professor - when both of the entities they worked for closed. It is true of two distinct sets of characters, with whom she presents us, from two different centuries.įirst we meet Willa Knox and her family. ![]() Nevertheless, the characters in Kingsolver's book are in danger of becoming unsheltered as the house in which they live is unstable with the roof caving in and walls collapsing. Then again perhaps I am projecting my own opinions onto the author. There is the understandable fear that the shelter which has always protected us is being ripped apart piece by piece. Perhaps the emphasis on houses - shelters - is a reflection of the unsettled times in which we live when it seems only natural to long for sanctuary and asylum from the daily onslaught of ineptitude, belligerence, and outright brainlessness that seem to rule our national life. ![]() ![]() And now here comes Barbara Kingsolver's contribution to the genre. Is it my flawed memory or have there been an unusual number of new books out this year that have featured a house as a central character? It seems to me that many of the books that I've read recently have had a house as an important element in the plot. ![]()
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