![]() ![]() Then Deborah calls on her mother, who is dead, but who was a fundraiser and organizer in her lifetime. Berthe Morisot, Monet, Matisse and Otto Dix join in the project until all of Vincent’s high jacked paintings have been recreated. Deborah (our protagonist’s new name) joins with painters of the 19th century who can make exact copies of Vincent’s paintings – the ones that sit in back bedrooms of the ultra-rich. Vincent grieves for his paintings – his poetry, heartbroken to discover they have been sold to rich people for huge sums of money. In her friendship with “Vincent” she learns who she needs to become.īut it is her friendship with Vincent that drives her deeper into an exploration of the world. Having casual affairs with Osiris of Egypt, being raped by his brother, Set, finding a lover among the Lost, she lives many truths that are new to her.They walk with her into a painting of a house in Arles and meets Vincent Van Gogh. They show her planets without inhabitants, and introduce her to loved ones she has lost to death. The Lost show her the myriad dimensions of Time and Space, taking her to mythic lands: ancient Egypt as well as very real places from the past, Weimar Germany. The woman is in fact, a member of the Lost: a group of 100 fully formed people dropped off on earth as it cooled down – they have lived on the planet as it developed the many species and geography of today. She is deep in transition from suburban housewife to living in the big city with a child from whom she is emotionally detached when she meets a woman who appears to be her identical twin. Left with money but no direction to her life, she moves back to the West Village where she grew up. This is the story of a woman who is suddenly widowed at 50. Request a review copy of The Road Not Taken, by Susan Rubin ![]()
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