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April 2019
On Sale: April 16, 2019
336 pages
ISBN: 1501197843
EAN: 9781501197840
Kindle: B07GNTBZ6S
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Literature and Fiction | Women's Fiction
The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg,
the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author
of Bee Season—a compelling and wholly original story
about a female photographer grappling with ambition and
motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women
of every generation. Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a
photography show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life
story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother, America’s
Bravest Mother, America’s Worst Photographer, or America’s
Greatest Photographer, depending on who was talking.” After
discovering photography as a teenager through her high
school’s photo club, Lillian rejects her parents’
expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York
City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude
photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha, Lillian is
arrested, thrust into the national spotlight, and targeted
with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter’s sudden
notoriety changes the course of both of their lives and
especially Lillian’s career as she continues a life-long
quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. Narrated by Samantha, Feast Your Eyes reads as a
collection of Samantha’s memories, interviews with Lillian’s
friends and lovers, and excerpts from Lillian’s journals and
letters—a collage of stories and impressions, together
amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an
artist dedicated, above all, to a vision of beauty, truth,
and authenticity.
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