Barbara Kingsolver: No, Really, I’m Not A Political Novelist

“There goes Kingsolver, inserting Nicaraguan contras into ‘Animal Dreams,’ a father-daughter story about Alzheimer’s. There she goes again, talking about Native American tribal rights, smack dab in the middle of ‘Pigs in Heaven.’ … ‘I never quite know what people mean by political,’ says Kingsolver, 54.”