![]() After Willa’s mother passes away, they inherit the Vineland house, more of a sinking ship than a lifeboat. Her husband, Iano, a tenured professor, is also cashiered when his college shuts its doors. A journalist who has worked hard to establish her career, Willa loses her job when the magazine she worked for goes bankrupt. In 2016, Willa Knox has every reason to feel she’s been shafted by the political system, but her material misfortunes mirror more cosmic complaints. in microcosm: a town cloaked in Christian virtue but actually run by a small plutocracy. The house’s precarious state symbolizes a sense, in both eras, that the world is about to crumble. ![]() Two families, alike in desperation, inhabit the house - one in the 1870s, the other in 2016. ![]() The primary setting of Barbara Kingsolver’s "Unsheltered" is a three-story brick house, at once grand and dilapidated, in the village of Vineland, New Jersey. ![]()
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