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My Life as as Silent Movie Star

My Life as as Silent Movie Star

Author(s): Jesse Lee Kercheval

Location(s): Paris

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1920s forward

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After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren’t the Americans who raised her, but a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. A story about identity and the shaping function of art, My Life as a Silent Movie presents a vividly rendered world and poses provocative questions on the relationship of art to life.

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“In this sharply drawn chronicle of grief, a woman reassembles her identity through her father’s art and her brother’s tenuous offer of a new life… Kercheval delves deeply into the rawest of emotions and...

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