Liza Wieland
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, arrives in France with her college roommates. They are in search of an escape, and inspiration, far from the protective world of Vassar College where they were expected to find an impressive husband, a quiet life, and act accordingly. But the world is changing, and as they explore the City of Light, the larger threats of fascism...
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"New Mexico, 1985. Brigid Long Night, a young half-Navajo painter, goes to work as an assistant for the elderly Georgia O'Keeffe. Haunted by the decision to give up her newborn daughter for adoption, Brigid struggles with the direction and inertia of her life ... Atlanta, 1996. Nancy Diamond, an aspiring playwright, encounters Brigid's work and begins to understand the hidden truths about her own life as the child born of an affair between her white...