Kingsolver, Barbara. The Lacuna.(Brief article)(Book review)

Kingsolver, Barbara. The Lacuna. Harper: HarperCollins. Nov. 2009. c.464p. ISBN 978-0-06-085257-3. $26.99. F

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Diego Rivera's mural in Mexico's Palacio Nationale was only half complete the day young Harrison Shepherd stood transfixed before it, but he would be forever captive to the extraordinary power of the imagination. A solitary child, a devourer of books, left to his own devices by a mother chasing unattainable men and a father pencil pushing for the government back in the States, Harrison observes and he writes. When a quirk of fate lands him in the home of Communist sympathizers Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Rivera's wife, Harrison becomes …