The Lacuna in Crazy Challenge Connection

Mar 06, 2012 Book Concierge rated it really liked it

Shelves: concierge, strong-women, cooking, library, art, books-about-books, audio, nature, literary-fiction, historical-fiction

Audio book performed by the author.
4****

Kingsolver tells the story of William Harrison Shepherd, a young man caught in the gaps (the lacunae) between two countries, two parents, two cultures, two lives (public and private). The novel unfolds as a series of diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings, spanning the period from 1929 to 1954. Never quite at ease with his place in the world, Shepherd is an astute observer, who carefully considers what he witnesses and forms his own opinions. But ...more

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Sep 25, 2015 Colleen rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction

The language used is gorgeous and the way the memoir is made up of different writing styles (ie. a boy's diary, a young man, newspaper articles, archivist's notes, etc.) is very well crafted. You can feel the character grow up through the way the author wrote his writings.
'Lacuna' has many meanings in this book, but is most definitely a missing section of text. It's not just one side of the story - there are newspaper clippings and letters after all - but it's about gaps we all have in our own ...more

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Jan 29, 2010 Chris rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, mexico, literary-fiction

It's amazing this book sat on my TBR shelf for three years, mostly because I didn't like the cover. I should know that Kingsolver's gift is to be found between the covers. Wow, but that woman can write--and never the same book twice. The Lacuna is as different from The Poisonwood Bible as it is from Prodigal Summer (my favorite Kingsolver). They do have one thing in common: the writing is always lush, like walking through a jungle where every few seconds you have to stop to take in something els ...more

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