L.C. Fiore

In this epic literary mystery, art is not merely a luxury item for the bourgeoisie. Instead, art is what we turn to when everything else has been lost. Although the backgrounds here are sweeping—the stuff of revolution—it is through the quiet moments of everyday life where Miriam Herin makes her most compelling connections, reminding us that art is for the moments when you’ve got nothing left—and art is for all of us… With a sharp eye for detail, Herin weaves a riveting and compassionate narrative out of lifelines that, in ways I can’t quite explain, have echoed across the decades and become part of my own.