Description: While her father and best friend are dying, a young American woman tries to find the limits of love and the power of art in the face of the inevitable.
Brief description: Carole Maso is author of the novels AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, and Defiance. She has also written several books of nonfiction. Maso is a professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.
Review Quotes: Maso is not content to muse on the relationship between life and art; she brings to life a 'bombardment of images and sounds, ' fashioning a pattern of astonishing complexity and beauty. The tough-mindedness, originality and wit of her perceptions are intoxicating.-- "Publishers Weekly"