Painting the Light: A Novel Polybag Putnam's Sons (December 3

Putnam's Sons (December 3

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Painting the Light: A Novel Polybag Putnam's Sons (December 3From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widows War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Marthas Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Marthas Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Bostons renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed unthinkable for women to take, and