How to Be Both
About this book
This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.
Subjects
- artists
- artists, fiction
- biography
- contemporary women
- fiction
- fiction / contemporary women
- fiction / historical
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction / literary
- fiction, women
- gender identity
- historical
- history
- interpersonal relations
- italian art
- italy, fiction
- justice
- literary
- love
- mothers and daughters
- new york times reviewed
- painters
- painting
- renaissance
- romance fiction
- teenage girls