Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver Contemporary Fiction Cleveland’s besieged mayor turned to

Cleveland’s besieged mayor turned to his newly-appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness

a secret amateur detective club

Thomas Haynes Bayly

On the warm night of 18 August 1942

seeking to calm the situation

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver Contemporary Fiction Cleveland’s besieged mayor turned toMeet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa's two grown up children, a new born grandchild, and her ailing father in law have all moved in at a time when life seems at its most precarious. But when Willa discovers that a pioneering female scientist lived on the same street in the 1800s, could this historical connection