This is how it begins
Subtitle: a novel
By: Joan Dempsey
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781631523083
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Gay teachers; Art teachers; Dismissal of; Art treasures in war; Fiction; Confiscations and contributions; World War, 1939-1945; Art thefts; Destruction and pillage; Painting; History
Description: "In 2009, eighty-five-year-old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson Tommy is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high school classrooms. The ensuing battle to reinstate the teachers raises the specter of Ludka's World War II past--a past she's spent a lifetime trying to forget ... As Ludka's influential family defends Tommy under increasingly vicious conditions, a stranger with connections to her past shows up and threatens to expose her for illegally hoarding a valuable painting presumed stolen by the Nazis. Only one other person knew about the painting--a man Ludka's been trying to find for sixty years"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes a Reader's Guide.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-399).