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How Barbara Kingsolver makes literature topical — from climate change to opioids

Por: Los Angeles Times Entertainment October 18, 2022

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In 1988, a friend passed me her tub-bubbled copy of Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel, “The Bean Trees.” The book had me at Line 1. “I have been afraid of putting air in a tire,” Kingsolver wrote, “ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine’s father over the top of the Standard Oil sign.” “The Bean Trees” was a surprise hit, clearing a path for its author, then 34, to spend the next three decades racking... + full article



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