![]() ![]() ![]() Things do not become compelling again until many years later when Shepherd moves to North Carolina and begins his literary career. My favorite passage in the book occurs then, a thrilling scene of MacArthur and Patton attacking American WW I veterans who were demanding the payment that had been promised to them for their participation in World War I, the Bonus Army. He connects briefly with his father in Washington DC and is enrolled in a private academy where latent interests come to the fore. We follow him through adolescence, through his association with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky and a host of lesser characters. She begins in 1929 in Mexico, introducing Harrison William Shepherd, son of an American father and a Mexican mother, as a young lad dragged along by mom to live with her boyfriend on an island off the Mexican coast. The Lacuna is Kingsolver’s attempt at a grand historical novel. ![]() Considering that the stable of characters includes Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, it takes some effort to make them dull.īarbara Kingsolver - image from The other is an overlong back story, very light on involvement, written as if the author was watching the events and characters from behind a cloud. One, the latter, is quite engaging, with a well-written historical perspective, emotional content, a bit of action. ![]()
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