I really enjoyed this book and raced through it. The story deals with a lost painting (it's actually a fictional painting by a real artist - Chaim Soutine - who I learned about at my two visits to the Barnes collection in Philly) and the Holocaust. The story switches back and forth between Lizzie and Rose telling their stories (Rose was the daughter of the owners of the painting that was taken by the Nazis) and Lizzie, living in present day LA and NY and who subsequently owned the same painting, which was again lost!
How did Lizzie get the painting? How did she lose it? How do Rose and Lizzie meet up? What happened to the painting the second time? What happened to Rose's parents?
All of these questions are handled in the book, along with revelations about guilt, friendship, family, and trust.
Read it!
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