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_annabel 's review for:
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
About an American/Mexican boy who grows up both in the US and Mexico. He never seems at home in either country because of that. He falls in with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, eventually working as their chef and secretary. He lives with Trotsky for a while, also as his secretary, and is their when Trotsky is assassinated. He eventually moves back to the US, where he becomes a successful author, but is then caught up in the McCarthy commission. It's interesting to read this story now, given what is going on in the US at the moment. This McCarthy trials seem super scary, that once you were in their focus there was nothing you could do. And it was so meaningless, the US was Stalin's friend, until they weren't.