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The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
I enjoy Barbara Kingsolver so much that I was disappointed to not love "The Lacuna" from the first page. It took at least a hundred pages or so for me to really get involved with the main character, Harrison Shepherd. I was finally hooked by Shepherd's meeting artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Mexico City (I adore both of their work and actually had wedding photos taken in front of a gorgeous Rivera mural in the stairwell of the Pacific Club in San Francisco.) From that point, I really began to love this novel and by the time Shepherd begins working for the doomed Trotsky I was more than hooked.
There are some simply beautiful passages in this book and some difficult truths about the worst impulses of American society that are even now being played out in our news media and repeated by the maddening crowds and stupid ratings-grubbing "reporters." (Accusations of Socialism anyone?!) I'm so glad I soldiered on for the first hundred pages; I was richly rewarded by the next 400!
There are some simply beautiful passages in this book and some difficult truths about the worst impulses of American society that are even now being played out in our news media and repeated by the maddening crowds and stupid ratings-grubbing "reporters." (Accusations of Socialism anyone?!) I'm so glad I soldiered on for the first hundred pages; I was richly rewarded by the next 400!