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Also by Claire McMillan:

Alchemy of a Blackbird, March 2024
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Alchemy Of A Blackbird, July 2023
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The Necklace, August 2018
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Alchemy of a Blackbird
Claire McMillan

A Novel

Simon & Schuster
March 2024
On Sale: March 19, 2024
288 pages
ISBN: 1668006561
EAN: 9781668006566
Kindle: B0BHTPGT57
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Hardcover (July 2023)

Women's Fiction Historical

In this “unforgettable adventure, and one you don’t want to miss” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author), painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret escape the Nazis by fleeing Paris and arriving at a safe house for artists on the Rivieria.

Along with Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, and others, the two anxiously wait for exit papers.

As the months pass, Remedios begins to sense that the others don’t see her as a fellow artist; they have cast her in the stifling role of a surrealist ideal: the beautiful innocent. She finds refuge in a mysterious bookshop, where she stumbles into a world of occult learning and intensifies an esoteric practice in the tarot that helps her light the bright fire of her creative genius.

When travel documents come through, Remedios and Benjamin flee to Mexico where she is reunited with friend and fellow painter Leonora Carrington. Together, the women tap into their creativity, stake their independence, and each find their true loves. But it is the tarot that enables them to access the transcendent that lies on the other side of consciousness and to become the truest Surrealists of all.

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