Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

There’s a certain kind of historical fiction premise that I particularly love. The author finds a gap in the historical record and writes a story that connects previously unconnected events and people. B.A. Shapiro’s The Muralist is just that kind of book. In Shapiro’s version of art history, the artists of early Abstract Expressionism made a quantum leap in their style at the beginning of World War II. The real history didn’t quite work out that way, but the Shapiro’s protagonist Alizée Benoit is a fictional point of connection between Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning and the refugee crisis in the late 1930s and early 40s...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this ebook from NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.