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Lark & Termite

Jayne Anne Phillips

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Lark 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 Termite’s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War.

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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Jayne
Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two short story collections, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets, and numerous novels, including Night Watch, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Machine Dreams, Shelter, Motherkind, and Quiet Dell. Her novel Lark & Termite, an excerpt of which is available in our Library, was the winner of the Heartland Prize. In addition, she received an Arts and Letters Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize. A member of the Academy Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in New York and Boston.

Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two short story collections, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets, and numerous novels, including Night Watch, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Machine Dreams, Shelter, Motherkind, and Quiet Dell. Her novel Lark & Termite, an excerpt of which is available in our Library, was the winner of the Heartland Prize. In addition, she received an Arts and Letters Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize. A member of the Academy Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in New York and Boston.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Lark is a young girl who happily spends most of her life caring for her disabled brother, nicknamed Termite. An unusual and lyrical story about people who muster up a lot of courage and passion, in spite of more that their fair share of suffering.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Author
Jayne Anne Phillips
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Nominating Library
Boston Public Library - USA

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