The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - Book review by Carole Beu

Winner of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. Kingsolver's ambitious new novel, her first in nine years (after the The Poisonwood Bible), focuses on Harrison William Shepherd, the product of a divorced American father and a Mexican mother. After getting kicked out of his American military academy, Harrison spends his formative years in Mexico in the 1930s in the household of Diego Rivera; his wife, Frida Kahlo; and their houseguest, Leon Trotsky, who is hiding from Soviet assassins.

Video book review by Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop, Ponsonby, Auckland - The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (9780571252640, Faber and Faber).

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[jjdrama]

I love this book and I'm writing a treatment for a musical theatre adaptation as a class project. Thanks for your perspective; it's helpful to hear the way you summarize the main points of the story.

[VernonGoddard]

Good review of a magnificent book.............