{"product_id":"the-lacuna","title":"The Lacuna","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of \u003cem\u003eHomeland\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-poisonwood-bible?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=dd90112c3\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poisonwood Bible\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/flight-behaviour\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlight Behaviour\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lacuna\u003c\/em\u003e is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn in America and 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 and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and 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 and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Kingsolver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40327690453154,"sku":"9780571252671","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-1799.png?v=1753884667","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-lacuna","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}