β Scribed by Jayne Anne Phillips
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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, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termites father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all.
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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,
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 s
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,
### 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