Title: How to Be Both
Description: This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.
Subjects: Teenage girls, Fiction, Painters, Renaissance, Italian Art, Mothers and daughters, Gender identity, Biography, History, Literary, Historical, Artists, Contemporary Women, Romance fiction, Love, Painting, Fiction, historical, Artists, fiction, Italy, fiction, Fiction, women, Justice, Interpersonal relations, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Contemporary Women, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general