{"product_id":"9781960573919","title":"Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Salomon Paints Her Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler’s rise to power in 1938, Charlotte’s first place prize is denied because she is a Jew, her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent from Berlin into exile with her grandparents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Charlotte’s grandmother leaps to her death, her Old World grandfather shocks her with the family secret, a legacy of female suicides. She struggles against her grandfather’s insistence that suicide, not art, is her destiny too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration, Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter, to complete her monumental work “Life? Or Theater?” and get it into safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sibylline Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42637536165949,"sku":"9781960573919","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781960573919_p0.jpg?v=1771585980","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781960573919","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}