Unsheltered : a novel

Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. 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. Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but he's threatened to be drawn into a vendetta with the town's powerful men. Barbara Kingsolver tells the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future.

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