Barbara Kingsolver, "Unsheltered" (w/ Diane Rehm)

Barbara Kingsolver discusses her novel, "Unsheltered", with Diane Rehm on 10/17/19.

Since she published The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver has been not only a bestselling novelist but a strong moral voice for our country. Her novels have won the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange (now Women’s) Prize, and consistently explore human resilience in trying times. In Unsheltered, she gives us two heroes a century apart: Willa Knox in the present, struggling to keep her family above water, and Thatcher Greenwood in the 1880s, a science teacher whose community forbids him to share Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. As Willa unearths Thatcher’s story, they learn together to find comfort in family, and in their shared hope in the future.

Barbara is in conversation with Diane Rehm, current host of the On My Mind podcast and former host of WAMU and NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show.

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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 been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her body of work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

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