β Scribed by Jayne Anne Phillips
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A rich, many-layered novel from one of our major writers, her first in nine years.
Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, it is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.
At its center: Lark and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but full of radiance; their mother, Lola; their aunt, Nonie, who raises them; and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who finds himself caught up in the chaotic early months of the Korean War. Told with enormous imagination and deep feeling, the novel invites us into the hearts and thoughts of each of the leading characters; even into Termite's intricate, shuttered consciousness. We are with Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire. We see Lark's hopes for herself and Termite, and how she makes them happen. We learn of Lola's love for her soldier husband and children, and unravel the...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book \*Chicago Tribune\*, \*Christian Science Monitor\*, \*The Washington Post\* and \*Los Angeles Times\* Best Book of the YearLark and Termite\*\* is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother,
Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the ch
EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book \*Chicago Tribune\*, \*Christian Science Monitor\*, \*The Washington Post\* and \*Los Angeles Times\* Best Book of the YearLark and Termite\*\* is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother,
EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book \*Chicago Tribune\*, \*Christian Science Monitor\*, \*The Washington Post\* and \*Los Angeles Times\* Best Book of the YearLark and Termite\*\* is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother,
EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book \*Chicago Tribune\*, \*Christian Science Monitor\*, \*The Washington Post\* and \*Los Angeles Times\* Best Book of the YearLark and Termite\*\* is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother,
### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. From Phillip's (_Motherkind_ ; _Shelter_) comes a long-awaited and wonderful coming-of-age tale of grief and survival. The story straddles a parallel six-day period in July, one in 1959βduring which 17-year-old Lark; her brother, Termite, who cant talk; an