Lacuna (Tp/B)

'You Had Better Write All This in Your Notebook, She Said, the Story of What Happened to Us in Mexico. so When Nothing is Left of Us but Bones, Someone Will Know Where We Went.' Bo Rn in the Us, Reared in a Series of Provisional Households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is Mostly a Liability to His Social-Climbing Mother, Salome. From a Coastal Island Jungle to the Unpaved Neighbourhoods of 1930S Mexico City, His Fortunes Never Steady As Salome Finds Her Rich Men-Friends Always on the Losing Side of the Mexican Revolution. He Aims for Invisibility, Observing His World and Recording Everything With a Peculiar Selfless Irony in His Notebooks. Life is Whatever He Learns From Servants Putting Him to Work in the Kitchen, Errands He Runs in the Streets, and One Fateful Day, by Mixing Plaster for Famed Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera. Making Himself Useful in the Household of the Muralist, His Wife Frida Kahlo, and Exiled Bolshevik Leader Lev Trotsky, Young Shepherd Inadvertently Casts His Lot In