Frida Kahlo like an electric sprite flints thru the novel along with a killer view of J. Edgar Hoover's America - so troubling to face how relevant to NOW this Kingsolver novel is.The ignorance of what communism is or for that matter the ignorance in this country of what democracy is or was, the frightening witch hunts of communist sympathizers or of anyone affiliated with communists like the name calling today.
We'll put it on our 'to read' list. thanks mary!
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