title: The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.)
author:  Barbara Kingsolver 
description: RichimpassionedengrossingPolitics and art dominate the novel, and their overt, unapologetic connection is refreshing. (<em><strong>Chicago Tribune</strong></em>)<br /><br />Masterfula reader receives the great gift of entering not one but several worldsThe final pages haunt me still. (<strong><em>San Francisco Chronicle Book Review</em></strong>)<br /><br />CompellingKingsolvers descriptions of life in Mexico City burst with sensory detailthick sweet breads, vividly painted walls, the lovely white feet of an unattainable love. (<strong><em>The New Yorker</em></strong>)<br /><br />A work that is often close to magic.... Much research underlies this complex weaving...but the work is lofted by lyric prose. (<strong><em>Denver Post</em></strong>)<br /><br />Shepherds story in Kingsolvers accomplished literary hands is so seductive, the prose so elegant, the architecture of the novel so imaginative, it becomes hard to peel away from the book (<em><strong>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</strong></em>)<br /><br />[Kingsolvers] playful pastiche brings to vivid life the culture wars of an earlier era... (<strong><em>Vogue</em></strong>)<br /><br />...True and riveting...Barbara Kingsolver has invented a wondrous filling here, sweeter and thicker than pan dulce, spicy as the hottest Mexican chiles, paranoid as the American government hunting Communists  (<em><strong>Philadelphia Inquirer</strong></em>)<br /><br />A sweeping mural of sensory delights and stimulating ideas about art, government, identity and historyReaders will feel the sting of connection between then and now. (<strong><em>Seattle Times</em></strong>)<br /><br />A sweeping narrative of utopian dreams and political realityA stirring novelintimate and pitch-perfect. (<em><strong>San Diego Union-Tribune</strong></em>)<br /><br />Kingsolver deftly combines real history and the life of the fictional protagonistA sweeping tale. (<em><strong>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</strong></em>)
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  Published Internationally by Lachesis Publishing Inc.
  
  Rockland, Ontario
  
  Copyright © 2013 Beverly Adam
  
  Exclusive cover © Laura Givens
  
  Inside artwork © 2013 Giovanna Lagana
  
  All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced,
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher,
  Lachesis Publishing Inc., is an infringement of the copyright law.
  
  A catalogue record for the print format of this title is available from the
  National Library of Canada
  
  ISBN 978-1-927555-31-6
  
  A catalogue record for the Ebook is available
  
  from the National Library of Canada
  
  Ebooks are available for purchase from
  
  www.lachesispublishing.com
  
  ISBN
  
  
  978-1-927555-30-9
  
  Editor: Joanna D’Angelo
  
  Copyeditor: Giovanna Lagana
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either
  the product of the author’s imagination o