Kingsolver, 68, has long incorporated social issues into her books, which also include "The Bean Trees" and the Winfrey pick "The Poisonwood Bible," and she was instrumental in creating the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. A young boy's perseverance and struggles as he grows up in southern Appalachia are the subject of Kingsolver's book, which was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club last autumn and named by The Washington Post as one of the year's most anticipated books. It was also on the long list for the Booker Prize. "Trust" was named one of the year's best books by The New York Times and The Washington Post and won the Kirkus Prize for fiction.
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