![]() ![]() in ancient Ms., book, etc.) empty part cavity in bone, tissue, etc. Here is the Concise Oxford Dictionary of a Lacuna: n. Now, a mere two years later, she manages to bring out The Lacuna. This does not stop her from stealing the show), amusing, and deeply edifying, Kingsolver gently lead the reader through the thicket of food politics and how to negotiate them, restoring my faith in the process. By turns terrifying (omnivores will be forced to confront, once and for all, the cow on their plates), charming (youngest child Lily Kingsolver-Hopp was too young to sign a book contract. ![]() Then 2007’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, written with biologist husband Steven Hopp and elder daughter Camille Kingsolver, is both an examination into American agribusiness practices and a yearlong diary on the Kingsolver-Hopp family farm. The book felt overwritten, what with fecundity springing from each sentence, steaming up the pages. I hugged my signed copy to my chest and waited for her next work, 2001’s Prodigal Summer. “People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.” – Barbara KingsolverĪs a longtime Kingsolver fan, I was bitterly disappointed when the magnificent Poisonwood Bible was overlooked for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. ![]()
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