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Barbara Kingsolver paints a portrait of American precarity in "Unsheltered"

Portrait by Steven L. Hopp

  On this edition of Your Call, we speak with Barbara Kingsolver about her new novel Unsheltered, a portrait of struggle, loss, and renewal in precarious times.

It’s told through the experiences of two families living on the same New Jersey corner in different eras, enduring seismic shifts in their personal lives. As the characters face a crumbling future that was supposed to have been secured, Kingsolver grapples with the problems many Americans are confronting today.

 

Guest:

Barbara Kingsolver, author of more than a dozen books including her eighth and most recent novel Unsheltered

Web Resources:

Goodreads: Interview with Barbara Kingsolver

Longreads: ‘I’ve Always Been Either Praised or Accused of Ambition’: An Interview with Barbara Kingsolver

NPR:Barbara Kingsolver Captures The Feeling Of Being 'Unsheltered'

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.