![]() ![]() GARCIA-NAVARRO: Talking about race, talking about the economy struggling and. I chose this moment in the 19th century right after the end of the Civil War when the country was absolutely as polarized as it is now on very much the same geographic lines and sort of cultural lines. And why do we keep trying old solutions to new problems when it looks like they're not working anymore? And I also realized it's hard to understand a crisis when you're in the middle of it. KINGSOLVER: I wanted to write about how people behave when when their world seems to be coming apart. Tell me why those periods and what you think they have in common? ![]() GARCIA-NAVARRO: This book is done in alternating chapters set in two different time periods - one just after the Civil War in 1871 and the other in 2016 America. ![]() It is my great pleasure to have you on the program. The book is called "Unsheltered." And she joins us now from WEHC in Emory, Va. Barbara Kingsolver is the bestselling author of "The Poisonwood Bible" and "The Lacuna." After six years, she has a new novel which tackles the divisions in America that have been around for a long time and remain unhealed. ![]()
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