Venus, Vanishing

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

In raucous 1928 Berlin, Hannah Sherman has deviated from the traditional arc of a woman’s life. An artist and a runaway, she revels in the city’s underground art scene and her newfound freedom. Working as a tailor while studying art in every spare moment, Hannah comes to know women and their bodies, first with measuring tape and silk, and later through sensuous layers of paint. Hannah feels like she can finally call herself an artist when an intoxicating, wealthy female collector commissions an