Unsheltered

For the first time in Russian, here is a work that has become a modern classic of American literature.

From the author of the popular novel “The Bible of the Poisonous Tree.”

This is a coming-of-age story that surprises with its personal depth and insight.

Barabara Kingsolver, the well-known American writer and poet, a Pulitzer Prize winner.

After finishing school in a small town in Kentucky, Marietta Grier buys an old used “Volkswagen” and sets off on a journey across America in search of a better life. She doesn’t expect miracles, but she knows that in her native places nothing good awaits her. Grayness and monotony—everything that Pittman County has to offer. In the seventies, they didn’t even know what a rotary phone was! To make a call, you had to ask an operator: “Girl, connect me...”

“Enough with Kentucky,” Marietta thinks, starting her journey. “Farewell, Pittman County—I’m not coming back.”

And so her first day of independence begins. But by sundown, an unexpected turn of events is waiting for her...