Lark and Termite a Picture Emerges Far More

a Picture Emerges Far More Compelling Than Any of the Caricatures Offered Up so Far

Heartwrenching Drama Draws on the Deepest Human Emotions the Need to Know Oneself

Since Susannah Cates' Husband Was Sent to Prison Three Years Ago

Which is Not the Same Thing As Saying That It is the Complete Truth

for Fifteen-Year-Old Gemma

Lark and Termite a Picture Emerges Far MoreTwo Children Lark and Her Brother, Termite, a Child Unable to Walk and Talk but Full of Radiance. Two Women Lola, Their Mother, and Nonie, Their Aunt, Who for Mysterious Reasons is the One to Raise Them. Lark and Termite Imaginatively Enters the Hearts and Thoughts of a Family, From Their Home in 1950S West Virginia to Korea, Where Their Father Has Been Sent to Fight. It is a Story of the Power of Loss and Love, the Echoing Ramifications of War,