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Interview with Barbara Kingsolver in 2019
This is really worth your time. I have been a fan of Ms. Kingsolver since I read Beantrees. In this interview she discusses among other things her latest, Unsheltered.
Snip from the NY Times review:
On its own, this economic-disaster narrative would be a sharp, if polemical, cautionary tale, an indictment of American life at an inflection point. (In the background lurk the 2016 presidential primaries.) But Kingsolver is a novelist with more elaborate plans, and in the second chapter she introduces a new set of characters who occupy the same acreage as Willa and her clan, but back in the 1870s, the decade after real-life Vineland was founded as a utopian community by Charles K. Landis. Thatcher Greenwood is a schoolteacher whose house is also decaying, but he has other pressing problems. Having become excited by the truth of the radical ideas of Charles Darwin, he will be in jeopardy if he discusses them with his students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/books/review/barbara-kingsolver-unsheltered.html
