![]() ![]() ![]() He's "the Bullhorn," "the tyrant who promises to restore the old order,"the "billionaire running for president who's never lifted a finger," the candidate who brags that "he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and people would still vote for him." He's the animal spirit of a political movement that's draining the middle class, breaking the joists of civil society and pushing the planet toward ecological calamity. Donald Trump's name doesn't appear in Barbara Kingsolver's "Unsheltered," but the president prowls all through these pages. Here comes the first major novel to tackle the Trump era straight on and place it in the larger chronicle of existential threats. Only a few intrepid novelists - including Salman Rushdie, Gary Shteyngart and Meg Wolitzer - have nodded toward the upset election of the reality TV star who promised to make America great again.Įnough with the glancing references and coy allusions. And besides, many fiction writers are wary of dating their stories with contemporary details. After all, novels are lumbering beasts next to fleet-footed books of political nonfiction. Fiction writers, though, have been slower to incorporate the Mogul into their work. Nonfiction writers began publishing books about Donald Trump even before Sean Spicer could start lying for him. ![]()
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