Lark and Termite A Novel [Paperback]

National Bestseller
New York Times Notable Book
Chicago Tribune,Christian Science Monitor,The Washington PostandLos Angeles TimesBest Book of the Year

Lark and Termiteis 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. Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all.“Powerful and emotionally piercing. . . . A novel that conjures with poetic ferocity the… unconscious, almost magical bonds shared by people who are connected by blood or love or memory.” —Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times

“Anyone, male or female, who seriously cares about reading novels will findLark and Termiteto be intricately and beautifully composed.” —The New York Review of Books 
 
“Phillips . . . [knows] how to bypass the reader’s brain and inject her words directly into the bloodstream.” —Los Angeles Times
 
“There are books you recommend to everybody, and then there are books you share cautiously, even protectively. Jayne Anne Phillips’sLark and Termiteis that second kind, a mysterious, affecting novel you’ll want to talk about only with others who have fallen under its spell.” —The Washington Post Book World
 
“This novel is cut like a diamond, with such sharp authenticity and bursts of light.” —Alice Munro
 
“Lark and Termiteis a category of story unto itself: mythical without being gooey; wry and terribly moving; as ornately contrived as Dickens, as poetic as Morrison,ló#