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It wasnt a compliment.
And this was before she went full-on environmental crusader in books likeProdigal SummerandFlight Behavior.
As Dickens showed us, morally charged novels can endure for generations.
Kingsolver wants to feed us improving ideas, as if we were moral nestlings.
Instead, her politics sit on the chest of her fiction and asphyxiate it.
Whatever it needs to do in the Trump era, this isnt it.
