Summary
Clara’s mother is famous for the nude portraits she took of Clara throughout her childhood. Clara has spent her entire adult life pulling away from her mother. At age eighteen, sick of her notoriety as ‘the girl in the pictures’, Clara fled New York City, settling and making her own family in small-town Maine. But years later, when her mother reaches out from her deathbed, Clara suddenly finds herself drawn back to the past she thought she had escaped.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529907544 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529907543 |
| Author: | Dani Shapiro |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
Shapiro does something rather thrilling with her story: she gets it just right. * Washington Post *
Universal dilemmas face us all, and it is the novelist’s job to breathe life into them one way or another, and this is something Shapiro does very well indeed * New York Times Book Review *
Trenchant and enduring * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
Shapiro’s central characters are expertly rendered * Elle Magazine *
Spellbinding…provocative, hypnotic…spot-on authentic. A cool depiction of a mother and daughter’s fraught and fiery relationship * USA Today *
Uncompromising storytelling…. The ideas Shapiro grapples with resonate, and she raises trenchant and enduring questions that resist easy answers * Los Angeles Times *
Oprah’s Book Club readers or fans of Jodi Picoult will enjoy this psychologically gripping book * Library Journal *
The novel offers some fine insights into marriage, the making of art and the often difficult mother-daughter dynamic * Publishers Weekly *
Shapiro portrays [this family] with compassion and humanity - nobody’s really a villain, though all of her characters are flawed… Black & White is really about the shades of grey in human relationships * Bookpage *
Enthralling, fast-paced and a great read. * The Miami Herald *
About The Author
Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Inheritance. Her other books include the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. In February of 2019, Dani launched an original podcast, Family Secrets, in collaboration with iHeartMedia. An iTunes Top 10 podcast, the series features stories from guests who - like Dani - have uncovered life-altering and long-hidden secrets from their past. Along with teaching writing workshops around the world, Dani has taught at Columbia and New York University, and is the cofounder of Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy.
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