Novels and social issues have been long in practice. The concept of telling a story that beautifully narrates a social problem has a larger impact. For instance, think of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist or John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The former deals with Victorian London's brutal treatment of people experiencing poverty, while the latter narrates Dust Bowl migrants … [Read more...] about Tackling Social Issues: How Genre Fiction Handles it?