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stareesky 's review for:
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
I am utterly stunned.
This is an ambitious historical fiction project that I did not see coming. Kingsolver effortlessly ties her protagonist, HW Shepherd, into the throes of World War II through McCarthyism. She evokes artistic and political questions which are ever so present today though the book is coming up on its 20th birthday.
I will admit that it did not begin as I usually expect a Kingsolver novel to (it didn’t help that I started it during a period that gave me whiplash) and thus took a little time to get into. But once I was in, I was in.
A book to cherish
This is an ambitious historical fiction project that I did not see coming. Kingsolver effortlessly ties her protagonist, HW Shepherd, into the throes of World War II through McCarthyism. She evokes artistic and political questions which are ever so present today though the book is coming up on its 20th birthday.
I will admit that it did not begin as I usually expect a Kingsolver novel to (it didn’t help that I started it during a period that gave me whiplash) and thus took a little time to get into. But once I was in, I was in.
A book to cherish