![]() It doesn’t matter what the rich folks, the white folks, the “haves” in our society are doing-they’re not taking care of their responsibilities.Īnd so, Kingsolver makes up a system where the outcasts take care of each other, and themselves. ![]() ![]() Kingsolver doesn’t start or stop with “What’s with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians?” She’s also just about had it with child pornography, and wife beating, some school kids being a whole lot poorer than other school kids, the homeless, child molestation, and the overriding fact that the people who are supposed to be taking care of this stuff are all out somewhere, either getting indicted for this-or-that, or getting their pictures taken for the local society pages, or stashing away their ill-gotten gains in their numbered Swiss accounts. ![]() This author, this Barbara Kingsolver, just doesn’t hang back: “What’s with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians?” Kingsolver has her heroine, Taylor Greer, ask, rhetorically, almost at the end of this novel, and she drives a couple of Guatemalan refuges from Tucson, Ariz., over on into Oklahoma some place, so that they might once again begin to be marginally safe. ![]()
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