![]() ![]() The novel evokes the horror and sorrow of the Holocaust in just their tedious administrative tasks of retracing steps, of sifting through wreckage. Shapiro makes the radical, varied, and sometimes enigmatic world of abstract expressionism altogether human and accessible in her smart new historical thriller.It has more emotional ballast and is more skillfully written than what one customarily finds. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who while working at Christie's auction house uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now-famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Now, she's back with another thrilling tale from the art world." -Entertainment Weekly When Alizee Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Shapiro captivated us in 2012 with her 'addictive' novel The Art Forger. Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist." -The Washington Post "B. ![]() ![]() Shapiro's new novel, Metropolis, available now! "Vibrant and suspenseful. ![]()
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