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Starred Review on November 15, 2015 | Fiction
Lovers of Shapiro's The Art Forger will be excited by this collage of diverse voices revealing the life of a fictional Works Project Administration (WPA) muralist named Alizée Benoit. In this noirish intrigue and fine-art detective story, Shapiro ably intersects the early years of the abstract expressionist movement, the Roosevelts, institutionalized anti-Semitism that denied American visas to Jewish refugees, the relentless run-up to World War II, and the ge...Log In or Sign Up to Read More