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him back to America; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption
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From Pulitzer Prize nominee & award winning author of Homeland The Poisonwood Bible & Flight Behaviour The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico & the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator Mc Carthy Born in America & raised in Mexico Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother Salome When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo
- where the Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky is also being harboured as a political exile
- he inadvertently casts his lot with art communism & revolution A compulsive diarist he records & relates his colourful experiences of life with Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo & Trotsky in the midst of the Mexican revolution A violent upheaval sends him back to America; but political winds continue to throw him between north & south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach
- the lacuna
- between truth & public presumption

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