Book description
Winner of the Eludia Award from Hidden River Arts.Daughter of a Collaborationist. Housekeeper to Gertrude Stein. An ordinary woman lives through extraordinary times.In this dual timeline narrative, a young French housekeeper lives out the years of World War II near Vichy France with her famous employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice…
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This provocative novel explores the challenges of living in an oppressive political environment. The springboard for the story is a character, a little girl featured in Gertrude Stein's 1940 book, Paris France. This author has taken that character from the Stein book and made her the protagonist of Helen Button--giving her a whole (fictional, but very believable) life. In the process the reader is led into considering not only Gertrude Stein's activities and sympathies during the Nazi Occupation of France--but also what each of us would have the courage, or the presence of mind, to do when confronted with situations…
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