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03813aim a22004455a 4500 001 CF0F4BF22DF611EAB868BF0597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200103010057 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 191018s2018 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 $a 0062865501 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9780062865502 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT12157311 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Kingsolver, Barbara, $e narrator. $e narrator. 245 10 $a Unsheltered $h [electronic resource] / $c Barbara Kingsolver. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b HarperAudio, $c 2018. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 39 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Performed by Barbara Kingsolver. 520 $a Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is also home to her ailing and cantankerous Greek father-in-law and her two grown children: her stubborn, free-spirited daughter, Tig, and her dutiful debt-ridden, ivy educated son, Zeke, who has arrived with his unplanned baby in the wake of a life-shattering development. In an act of desperation, Willa begins to investigate the history of her home, hoping that the local historical preservation society might take an interest and provide funding for its direly needed repairs. Through her research into Vineland's past and its creation as a Utopian community, she discovers a kindred spirit from the 1880s, Thatcher Greenwood. A science teacher with a lifelong passion for honest investigation, Thatcher finds himself under siege in his community for telling the truth: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting new theory recently published by Charles Darwin. Thatcher's friendships with a brilliant woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor draw him into a vendetta with the town's most powerful men. At home, his new wife and status-conscious mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his financial worries and the news that their elegant house is structurally unsound. Brilliantly executed and compulsively readable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred-whether family or friends-and in the strength of the human spirit. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Courage $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Inspiration $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social change $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Dwellings $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Vineland (N.J.) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a Kingsolver, Barbara. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12157311?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062865502_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20200103010707.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CF0F4BF22DF611EAB868BF0597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search