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William Morrow Paperbacks
February 2019
On Sale: February 5, 2019
368 pages
ISBN: 0062270362
EAN: 9780062270368
Kindle: B074DTKN4W
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Fiction
The follow-up to Susan Gloss's successful debut,
Vintage,is a charming mid-western story of artists,
inspiration, and how to reinvent your life with purpose
and flair. Nell Parker has a PhD in Art History, a loving husband
named Josh, and a Craftsman bungalow in the charming
university town of Madison, Wisconsin. But in secret,
Nell's heart is still reeling from the tragic way in
which they lost the one baby they managed to conceive.
Rather than pausing to grieve, she pushes harder for
testing and fertility treatments, hiding the high cost
from her husband. Although he's in the dark about their
mounting debt, Josh urges Nell to apply for jobs,
believing his wife needs something else to focus on other
than a baby that may never be. Finding a job turns out to be difficult for an art
historian. . . until Nell sees the ad seeking a director
for a new nonprofit called the Mansion Hill Artists'
Colony. The colony is the brainchild of the late,
unconventional society dame Betsy Barrett, who left
behind her vast fortune and a killer collection of modern
art to establish an artist-in-residency program to be run
out of her lakeside mansion. The executor of Betsy's
estate simply hands Nell a set of house keys and wishes
her luck, leaving her to manage the mansion and the
eccentric personalities of the artists who live there on
her own. Soon one of the artists, a young metal sculptor named
Odin, is keeping the other residents awake with his late-
night welding projects. Nell is pretty sure that Annie, a
dreadlocked granny known for her avant garde performance
pieces, is dealing drugs out of the basement "studio."
Meanwhile Paige, an art student from the university,
takes up residence in the third-floor turret,
experimenting with new printing and design techniques, as
well as leading a string of bad boyfriends upstairs when
she stumbles home late at night. Despite all the drama, Nell finds something akin to a
family among the members of the creative community that
she's brought together. And when her attraction to Odin
begins to heat up, Nell is forced to decide what will
bring her greater joy--the creative, inspired world she's
created, or the familiar but increasingly fragile one of
her marriage.
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