A review by maggiemarbles
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940.  This novel, told in a series of diary excerpts and newspaper clippings and such, is about a (fictional) young man who was Trotsky's cook.  I definitely found myself wishing he was real!
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