Lark and Termite

Two 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, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.

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"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<br>"<br>"Anyone, male or female, who seriously cares about reading novels will find Lark and Termite""to be intricately and beautifully composed." --"The New York Review of Books " <br>"Phillips . . . [knows] how to bypass the reader's brain and inject her words directly into the bloodstream." --"Los Angeles Times "<br>" "<br>"There are books you recommend to everybody, and then there are books you share cautiously, even protectively. Jayne Anne Phillips's Lark and Termite is 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" <br>"This novel is cut like a diamond, with such sharp authenticity and bursts of light." --Alice Munro <br>"Lark and

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Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of five works of fiction. The recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. She divides her time between Boston, New York, and Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

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