![]() ![]() ![]() In an alternate time period 140 years earlier - the book switches past to present, chapter to chapter - Thatcher Greenwood is a science teacher living in an utopian community where God’s will is the only natural law and his new wife’s status-rich family requires his financial support. But, as the 2016 US presidential election looms in the background, she is forced to examine how her lifelong good intentions haven’t really been enough to provide stability for her family - or herself. Willa Knox has done everything a woman born during the third wave of feminism should do: she’s worked as a successful magazine journalist, been a loving spouse, and cared for family members from kids to pets to parents. The Climate and Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to question how what seems natural and right can lead to systemic damage - to our belief systems, social institutions, and the planet. Often dark and frequently remarkable, the book draw upon premises from Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. By examining 2 eras of families living in the same house, she asks us to consider how survival-of-the-fittest works both in the natural and social worlds to privilege some individuals and to suffocate others. ![]() In her newest novel, Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver uses fiction to examine how our current generation of adults has become so inured to capitalism that we’ve unknowingly fostered climate change. ![]()
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