{"id":4116,"date":"2019-12-16T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2020-02-05T17:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:38:46","slug":"another-barbara-kingsolver-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/another-barbara-kingsolver-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Barbara Kingsolver Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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December, 2019, both Dottie and Judy recommend Kingsolver’s “Unsheltered”.  My apologies, Dottie, because I can’t find your recommendation.  Comments from <\/span><\/em>Judy follows:<\/span><\/h4>\n
Greeting from Puerto Vallarta Mexico where it has been sunny, balmy, breezey, and a constant 75 degrees F since we arrived four days ago.  And also where I have just finished Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered now out in paperback and recently recommended to all of us by Dottie.  <\/span><\/div>\n
If you are a Kingsolver fan like me, you’ll want to get your hands on this one right away and join Dottie”s discussion of it offline.  It’s a “doozer” that speaks intelligently and carefully to our political divide through the eyes of a multigenerational middle class family living in one house and faced with declining fortunes and options through no fault of their own — composed of a dying conservative and angry MAGA grandfather, a moderate and concerned mother just like most of us, a charming handsome and apolitical dad, and two adult siblings, a 30ish boy looking to cash in on Wall St at the expense of everyone else, and a smart 20ish independent millennium girl with a very different view of what’s happening to the world, why, and how to deal with it.  <\/span><\/div>\n
As if that’s not enough to digest, this whole story set in 2016 just before the election, is offset chapter for chapter by a second story of another family who lived in the same house in an equally divisive and perilous time for the country, 1870, just after the Civil War.<\/span><\/div>\n
It’s the kind of novel so filled with ideas that I’m feeling like I should start right back on page 1 and read it all over again.  Thanks so much, Dottie, for prompting me to get a copy as soon as I read your email to the Chat.  It has changed my thinking about the future.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From your editor:  Oh my heavens, what an amazing book.  I, too, am going to read it over again.  How on earth does Barbara Kingsolver come up with these marvelous stories!   Liz Webfoot, February, 2020<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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December, 2019, both Dottie and Judy recommend Kingsolver’s “Unsheltered”.  My apologies, Dottie, because I can’t find your recommendation.  Comments from Judy follows: Greeting from Puerto Vallarta Mexico where it has been sunny, balmy, breezey, and a constant 75 degrees F since … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-reads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}