Adventurous and precocious, Jess is enormously protective of his older brother, Christopher, a mute whom everyone calls Stump. For a curious boy like Jess Hall, growing up in Marshall means trouble when your mother catches you spying on grown-ups.
The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.Ī stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist-and of art itself. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach-the lacuna-between truth and public presumption. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence.
He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend.
Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.
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Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico-from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City-Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J.
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