🎙️ The titan of American literature, Barbara Kingsolver, talks about her uphill battle to success, her anger about the social and political situation in the US, and being the first person to win the Women’s Prize twice with _annabonet
There was a single driving force which propelled her forward: anger. “That was the origin of everything. My anger at what had been done to us and the fact we have this generation of kids orphaned by the opioid epidemic and that nobody seemed to care. It’s all about the outrage – that was the engine behind this book.”
There are many ways disdain for rural people is expressed in the US. One such insult – “deplorables” – prompted a back and forth with her publisher as to whether she should use the word in the book. At Kingsolver’s request, it was kept in. “I’ve never shrunk from asking people to be a little uncomfortable,” she muses.
“It has been a long uphill battle just to be allowed the moral authority and territory to do what I do,” Kingsolver says
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