The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver C Forced to spend the summer

Forced to spend the summer holiday with her recently widowed grandmother while her deadbeat mom goes into rehab

Like his late

the race leads to a deadlocked party convention where Grace must resolve the conflict between his romance with Lexie and his presidential ambitions--and decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice

her shrewd

But his ultimate goal is Rachel Morgan

The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver C Forced to spend the summerMedium paperback, spine creasing, cover has light wear see photos HISTORICAL FICTION In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional