Book
Unsheltered : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0062684566
- ISBN: 9780062684561
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Physical Description:
464 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family's one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own. 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: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town's powerful men. Unsheltered is 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.-- |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Vineland (N.J.) Fiction Courage Fiction Inspiration Fiction Social change Fiction Families Fiction |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 59 of 70 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 70 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansonia Public Library | FIC KINGSOLVER, BARBARA (Text) | 34045101778590 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/29/2024 |
| Babcock Library - Ashford | F Kin (Text) | 33110143444584 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 33120000388154 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC KINGSOL (Text) | 33750000071137 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F KINGSOLVER, B. (Text) | 32544072521379 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Kin (Text) | 33160142357089 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/24/2024 |
| Bethel Public Library | KINGSOLVER (Text) | 34030142385845 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | FIC KINGSOLVER (Text) | 34000081399644 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/07/2024 |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF KIN (Text) | 33260000262791 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/KINGSOLVER (Text) | 34029144262549 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
