Max read this for school.

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in a box of books to Linda.

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in a box of books to Linda.

I picked this same copy up at Sundee's house, as Linda had finished it and brought it up to her daughter's in California. As I was ready for a new book, I finally got a chance to read this one, which both kids had read in school.

It reminded me of Annie Proulx's accordian book, which traces the path of an inanimate object (a Vermeer painting) backwards in time from contemporary America to Holland, through eight different chapters, each of which provides a thoughtful window into the times and issues going on, whether the Holocaust, or dyke flooding, or persecution of "witches."

"She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the world, in fact. Their eyes, the particular turn of a head, their loneliness or suffering or grief was borrowed by an artist to be seen by other people throughout the years who would never see them face to face, People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her."

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I will be dropping this back at Sundee's house as we pass through town.