![]() ![]() While Kingsolver's seventh novel, Flight Behavior, does not quite achieve the resonance of Morrison's and Doctorow's masterpieces, this is partly due to its inherently less dramatic material. Doctorow on the collateral damage of war in The March. ![]() But done well, it can be both eye-opening and moving: think Charles Dickens on children and poverty in Oliver Twist Upton Sinclair on the meat-processing industry in The Jungle Toni Morrison on the tolls of slavery in Beloved E.L. In the wrong hands, fiction written to convey urgent social messages is as tedious as a political harangue. How?īarbara Kingsolver's commitment to literature promoting social justice runs so deep that in 1998 she established the Bellwether Prize (now the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction) to encourage it. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Flight Behavior Author Barbara Kingsolver ![]()
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