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Inspired by A. S. Byatt's The Matisse Stories and Johannes Vermeer's exquisite paintings of women, author Gail Tyson began these tales during a transition from a demanding career to full-time writing in 2017, and finished the last after her beloved's brief, terrifying illness and death. Each piece of prose (one a short story, one a fiction/nonfiction hybrid, and one a memoir) offered Tyson a liminal space in which to explore vulnerability and love, the verso and recto of our deepest relationships.
Inspired by A. S. Byatt's The Matisse Stories and Johannes Vermeer's exquisite paintings of women, author Gail Tyson began these tales during a transition from a demanding career to full-time writing in 2017, and finished the last after her beloved's brief, terrifying illness and death. Each piece of prose (one a short story, one a fiction/nonfiction hybrid, and one a memoir) offered Tyson a liminal space in which to explore vulnerability and love, the verso and recto of our deepest relationships.
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