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BOOK REVIEW An American family suffers in ‘Unsheltered’

Mark Athitakis “How could two hardworking people who treats the town like a fiefdom. parenthood in all its complexity, rich Special to USA TODAY do everything right in life and arrive in “When men fear the loss of what they historical detail and a gift for a piercing their fifties essentially destitute?” Willa know, they will follow any tyrant who satirical line. The world is crashing down on Willa, thinks. promises to restore the old But the novel also is the hero of Barbara Kingsolver’s earnest Kingsolver doesn’t want you to read order,” Treat intones. Kingsolver at her most di- and ambitious new novel, “Unshel- that line solely as a cry of despair. She Kingsolver’s point is dactic. Willa’s children ar- tered” (Harper, 496 pp., eeeE). takes the question seriously: What clear: The American experi- guing over global economic Journalism cutbacks forces threaten to wreck the American ment, then and now, frays policy resembles the luke- have ravaged her income. family, and what can help stave them whenever its most fearful warm banter of a think- Her professor husband, off? To answer that, Kingsolver alter- citizens take comfort in tank podcast, and extend- Iano, lost tenure when his nates her narrative between 2016 and their own ignorance. King- ed debates between university became insol- 1874, where on the same patch of Pine solver, a biologist by train- Thatcher and Cutler are vent. Their son’s wife has Barrens land a schoolteacher named ing, has been attacking cartoonishly binary. Only killed herself, leaving be- Thatcher is befriending Mary Treat. myths about the just-so the rules of historical fic- hind an infant child. Barbara Mary, based on a real person, is an nuclear family since her tion prevent Kingsolver Their daughter is skepti- Kingsolver uncredentialed but serious naturalist 1988 debut, “The Bean from slapping a MAGA cap cally re-entering Ameri- who has published widely and corre- Trees,” and most powerful- on Cutler’s head. can life after a stint in Cuba. Iano’s em- sponds with Charles Darwin. But ac- ly in 1998’s “The Poison- The book’s title suggests physemic father is a bigoted fan of the cepting the theory of evolution is all but wood Bible.” a roof gone missing. But it “Bullhorn” running for president in a crime in town. Cutler, headmaster of “Unsheltered” works similar themat- also is a resonant call to be more alert to 2016. And their New Jersey home, built Thatcher’s school, thunders on cre- ic turf, and it has the virtues of her best our social predicaments, to “stand in the in the 1870s, is rapidly collapsing. ationism’s behalf, backed by a mayor fiction: a compassionate portrait of clear light of day.”

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