Please note that this is a signing only event. Barbara Kingsolver will be signing copies of Unsheltered purchased at Malaprop’s. She will not be speaking and will not sign copies of her other titles. She will not be personalizing copies.
Purchase Unsheltered in store, by phone, or online at https://www.malaprops.com/book/9780062684561
The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval. Malaprop’s is thrilled to host Barbara Kingsolver for an Unsheltered signing only event on Thursday, November 29th at 1:00 pm. The opportunity to meet Kingsolver and have your book signed will only be offered to customers who pre-order or purchase a copy of Unsheltered at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, or www.malaprops.com.
While she will try to get to everyone, signing line priority will be given to customers who preorder their copy of Unsheltered and signing line tickets are first come, first served. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for important updates on the day of the signing. Can’t make it to the store for the event? Call us or visit our website to order a signed copy.
Devoted fans can hear Barbara Kingsolver deliver the keynote address at the Literacy Council’s 11th Annual Authors for Literacy Dinner & Silent Auction later in the evening. For tickets and more information about the Literacy Council event, visit www/litcouncil.com.
About Unsheltered:
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.
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