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May 06, 2016EmilyEm rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The artist Camille Pissarro's mother takes center stage in this historic fiction set on the island of St. Thomas and in Paris. Two things in the book’s structure aren’t favorites of mine. One is book chapters that alternate different character’s views and the second is writing in first person. Had I not been curious about the artist, I wouldn’t have continued. While Camille’s early life gets attention, his adulthood falls to a secondary place. It’s an intriguing story of life in a small Jewish community on a small island, but lacked a strong narrative arc and had lots of repetition. Disappointing.