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esander1789 's review for:
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver is not reliable, and I had delayed reading this, but it turns out to be truly wonderful, one of the top of the year. Compelling choice of setting in US and Mexican mid-20th Century history. My favorite part is when the main character mixes plaster and cooks for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, with beautiful depictions of how the paintings come to pass. The pictures become so much more vibrant with these descriptions fresh in the mind. Also compelling to read the novelistic version of the ugly transformation of the US from pre-wartime optimism to paranoid crippling patriotism.