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Kingsolver painted a colorful landscape of Mexico and the United States, which depicted the cultural and political climate of the years leading up to and following WWII. Kingsolver laid the foundation of her story by using actual news clippings to establish "facts" about the political times. She then artfully created the fictional character of Harrison Shepard, a poor young man of mixed Mexican/American descent, who dreamed of writing epic historicals; and placed him in the household of artists,
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I wanted to fall in LOVE with this book, but reading it was like walking on a treadmill...I just kept reading and reading but felt like I was getting nowhere. This book took me almost one month of on-and-off reading to finish, which is a rare thing for me. I had very high expectations for this novel for a few reasons:
1.) The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer are two of my favorite books EVER and I also loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life...all by Kingsolver.
2.) I lived in M ...more
1.) The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer are two of my favorite books EVER and I also loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life...all by Kingsolver.
2.) I lived in M ...more
3.5 stars
This novel held lots of promise for me as I love all of Barbara Kingsolvers work. I was duly excited when I found the story contained the characters of Frida and Diego Rivera. However, sigh, there were parts that just got lost to me when I was reading some of the correspondence of Mr. Shepard. So for about 200 pages in there it was tough but it was laying the ground for the end. I stuck with and I am glad I did but I would say that not all BK fans will.
This novel held lots of promise for me as I love all of Barbara Kingsolvers work. I was duly excited when I found the story contained the characters of Frida and Diego Rivera. However, sigh, there were parts that just got lost to me when I was reading some of the correspondence of Mr. Shepard. So for about 200 pages in there it was tough but it was laying the ground for the end. I stuck with and I am glad I did but I would say that not all BK fans will.
Dec 17, 2009
Natalie
marked it as to-read
Jul 06, 2011
Polly Bullard
marked it as to-read
