LARK AND TERMITE: Jayne Anne Phillips: Knopf: Fiction: 272 pgs.This lyrical novel is the story of two siblings growing up in a small town in the 1950's. Lark and Termite are 1/2 sister and brother, with the same mother, but different fathers. Lark is in secretarial school and is taking care of Termite who is severely disabled. You gradually learn that their mother passed away and gave the children to her sister to take care of when they were very young. The story unfolds around the members of the small town circle that cares for and supports Lark and Termite, while alternating chapters follow the last hours of Termite's father's life as he dies in a conflict in the Korean War. This is an intense and poetic story that builds towards an exciting and unexpected ending.
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