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Mar 19, 2019writermala rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Ever since "The Poisonwood Bible," I have been a Barbara Kingsolver fan. It took me a while to get into "Unsheltered" but once I did, it proved to be gripping. Kingsolver bases her story on a historical figure, Mary Treat, and builds around it. She was a naturalist who lived in Vineland, New Jersey and was way ahead of her time. Te other characters in the book is a family in the present. I loved how Kingsolver links the two families who lived over a century apart. The ending of each chapter provided the heading of the next chapter and the shambles that the house is in, links the two families memorably. My favorite characters were Mary Treat in the then, and and Tig in the now.