meghgrace 's review for:

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

4.0

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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I almost abandoned this one because I found it difficult to get into, but because I love Barbara Kingsolver, I pressed on, and I’m glad I did. It’s wild how the themes of this book, which is set in the 1930s-1950s, feel extremely relevant today. As Kingsolver says in a Q&A at the end of the book, “We [in the United States] seem to have an aversion to national self-criticism in general. We began as a nation of rabble-rousers, bent on change. But now, patriotism is often severely defined as accepting our country to be a perfect finished product.”