![]() While living with and working for them, he also begins working as a secretary for Leon Trotsky who is hiding there, exiled by Stalin, and witnesses his assassination. During his time in Mexico he works as a plaster mixer for the mural artist Diego Rivera then as a cook for both him and his artist wife Frida Kahlo, with whom Shepherd develops a lifelong friendship. His parents are separated so he lives back and forth between the United States with his father and Mexico with his mother. The novel tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd beginning with his childhood in Mexico during the 1930s. It was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award. ![]() It is Kingsolver's sixth novel, and won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Library of Virginia Literary Award. ![]() The Lacuna is a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. ![]()
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