![]() I was so looking forward to her first new novel in nine years that I pre-ordered it, new, in hardcover (and those are three things I never, ever do.) I really, really wanted to love it as much as I loved Poisonwood Bible or Prodigal Summer. Review: Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors. Harrison is able to channel his lifetime passion for writing into a successful career as an author – until the war is over, and the Anti-Communist fervor grips the country. When Trotsky is murdered, Harrison flees to the U.S., which is caught in the grip of World War II. ![]() After the Russian Revolution, Trotsky’s exile brings him to Mexico, and to the house of the Riveras, where Harrison becomes his secretary. After a brief stint in the United States for boarding school during the Depression, he returns to Mexico, where he becomes a cook in the house of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, famous artists and Socialists. ![]() He’s dragged to Mexico by his capricious and gold-digging mother, where he begins keeping a journal. Summary: Harrison Shepard has never really fit in anywhere: born to a Mexican mother and an American father, he’s never really had a country to call his own. “The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.” – p. ![]() Why do I have it? Kingsolver’s one of my favorite authors, and this is her first new novel in almost a decade. Where did it come from? Preordered from Amazon. ![]()
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