![]() ![]() Journalist Willa Knox and her professor husband, Iano, have both just lost what they thought were steady jobs in Virginia, and their house goes along with the closing of Iano’s college. The narratives follow families struggling to keep their houses together, literally, while battling opposition from dependents as well as obsolescent, tyrannical leadership. The novel follows two stories, one set in the 1870s and the other in present day, both in Vineland, New Jersey, on the same street. Enter Barbara Kingsolver’s eighth novel, Unsheltered. The collapse made it more difficult to keep finances and mortgages in check, and more likely for desperate voters to turn to unstable leaders in government. ![]() In the aftermath of the 2008 housing crisis, American families continue to struggle. ![]()
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