A brilliant, once-promising art student, the daughter of a prominent New York art conservator, Alix and her world were left in ruins when her father went to prison for art forgery. But when an attempted art theft goes horribly wrong, Alix is plunged into a tangled web of forgery, deceit – and murder…
Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. We follow Antonia from farm to town and through hardships both natural and human, surviving everything from poverty to a failed romance–and not only surviving, but triumphing.
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language.
