The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Title: The Lacuna
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Communism, Historical Fiction
# of pages: 528
Start date:N/A
End date:N/A
Borrowed/bought: bought
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B+
Description of the book: The story of The Lacuna is a historical fiction about the life of Harrison Shepard, a child born of a union between a mexican mother and an American father. A good portion of the book is written in an epistolary style where Harrison Shepard is recounting his childhood and adolescence through journal entries and letters. Harrison grows up in Isla Pixol with his mother and her boyfriend. Some notable characters in the book are Trotsky (communist revolutionary), Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, famous mexican painters during his adolescence and adulthood.
Review: What drew me to this book was the characters of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. There was a great deal of information about their tumultuous relationship as well as a lot of back story and detail involving communism, the depression, and the red scare. Kingsolver definitely did her homework. You would enjoy this book if you are interested in any books about the above artists or communism. Parts were slow particularly after Harrison leaves school. I kept thinking, where is this going? And even the ending seemed kind of unresolved.
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Communism, Historical Fiction
# of pages: 528
Start date:N/A
End date:N/A
Borrowed/bought: bought
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B+
Description of the book: The story of The Lacuna is a historical fiction about the life of Harrison Shepard, a child born of a union between a mexican mother and an American father. A good portion of the book is written in an epistolary style where Harrison Shepard is recounting his childhood and adolescence through journal entries and letters. Harrison grows up in Isla Pixol with his mother and her boyfriend. Some notable characters in the book are Trotsky (communist revolutionary), Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, famous mexican painters during his adolescence and adulthood.
Review: What drew me to this book was the characters of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. There was a great deal of information about their tumultuous relationship as well as a lot of back story and detail involving communism, the depression, and the red scare. Kingsolver definitely did her homework. You would enjoy this book if you are interested in any books about the above artists or communism. Parts were slow particularly after Harrison leaves school. I kept thinking, where is this going? And even the ending seemed kind of unresolved.