The Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver · 2009 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Harrison Shepherd, a boy from the American South raised in Mexico, becomes cook and secretary to Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and then to the exiled Trotsky. Years later, as a popular novelist in North Carolina, he is called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. His story reaches us through his diaries, letters and newspaper cuttings, and the book won the 2010 Orange Prize.

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