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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver audio Book (2018 CD, Unabridged Edition)
Unsheltered - A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
CDROM AUDIO BOOK, 14 CDs UNABRIDGED
“A timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.”
—Ken Follett
Willa Knox, a former magazine journalist, and her unemployed professor husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and a house that is falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed.
She had always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart.
a father-in-law
The dilapidated house is also the only option for her disabled and cantankerous Greek father-in-law, and her two grown children:
her stubborn, free-spirited daughter, Tig, and her dutiful debt-ridden, ivy educated son, Zeke, who has arrived with his unplanned baby in the wake of a life-shattering development.
In an act of desperation, Willa begins to investigate the history of her home, hoping that the local historical preservation society might take an interest and provide funding for its direly needed repairs. Through her research into Vineland's past and its creation as a Utopian community, she discovers a kindred spirit from the 1880s, Thatcher Greenwood.
A science teacher with a lifelong passion for honest investigation, Thatcher finds himself under siege in his community for telling the truth: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting new theory recently published by Charles Darwin. Thatcher's friendships with a brilliant woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor draw him into a vendetta with the town's most powerful men. At home, his new wife and status-conscious mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his financial worries and the news that their elegant house is structurally unsound.
Brilliantly executed and compulsively listenable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred--whether family or friends--and in the strength of the human spirit.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction, including the novels, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the enormously influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has earned numerous literary awards--including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize.
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Data sheet
- Type
- Audiobook
- Author
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Topic
- Historical
Literary
Sagas - Format
- Compact Disc
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Book Title
- Unsheltered
- Run Time
- ~16 hours 45 minutes
- Narrator
- Barbara Kingsolver
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