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“A sweeping mural of sensory delights and stimulating ideas about art, government, identity and history…Readers will feel the sting of connection between then and now.” - Seattle Times

“.True and riveting.Barbara Kingsolver has invented a wondrous filling here, sweeter and thicker than pan dulce, spicy as the hottest Mexican chiles, paranoid as the American government hunting Communists ” - Philadelphia Inquirer “ playful pastiche brings to vivid life the culture wars of an earlier era.” - Vogue “Shepherd’s story in Kingsolver’s accomplished literary hands is so seductive, the prose so elegant, the architecture of the novel so imaginative, it becomes hard to peel away from the book” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Much research underlies this complex weaving.but the work is lofted by lyric prose.” - Denver Post “Compelling…Kingsolver’s descriptions of life in Mexico City burst with sensory detail-thick sweet breads, vividly painted walls, the lovely white feet of an unattainable love.” - The New Yorker “Masterful…a reader receives the great gift of entering not one but several worlds…The final pages haunt me still.” - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Rich…impassioned…engrossing…Politics and art dominate the novel, and their overt, unapologetic connection is refreshing.” - Chicago Tribune Dianne Patrick, Snowbound Books, Marquette, MI The philosophy of Communism and the innate need for freedom of expression raise their demanding fists in this young man's story, and they won't let the reader go.”

The Lacuna is a solid example of Kingsolver's expertise in combining politics and fiction. He mixes plaster for the muralist, types letters for Leon Trotsky, and befriends Frida. A young Mexican-American man finds himself caught up in the creative and political household of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. “Kingsolver's first novel in nine years has a compelling, provocative storyline that takes place between Mexico City and the United States in the period from the 1930s to the 1950s. Sheryl Cotleur, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA Winter 2011 Reading Group List Kingsolver does a masterful job creating a story with both scope and intimacy while also raising potent questions about freedom of expression and belief. “Moving from a setting in Mexico (in the company of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Trotsky) to the 1950s America of Red Scares and McCarthyism, The Lacuna tells the very personal and human story of young novelist Harrison Shepherd.