Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver Contemporary Fiction Cleveland had the Mad Butcher

Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run

becomes the catalyst for catastrophe

On the warm night of 18 August 1942

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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver Contemporary Fiction Cleveland had the Mad ButcherMeet 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