The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, Faber & Faber, $23.99
My current literary love affair is with Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna. The story of Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo’s cook, it begins in 1930’s Mexico and ends in post-War America, taking in the hero’s ever-hopeful femme fatale mother, the exiled Trotsky and the ghoulish functionaries of the Un-American Activities persecutions.
The scholarship is lightly worn. Its vivid characters, its humour, its language, its geography, its breathtaking range, all make it un-put-downable. If I’d written this book, I’d die happy.
Sex And Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido , Bloomsbury, $32.99, is in stores now.
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