Asunder

AsunderMarie's job as a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors of the Gallery surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belies their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great grandfather Ted, the museum guard who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to

Marie's job as a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors of the Gallery surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belies their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the museum guard who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to one of the gallery's masterpieces on the eve of the First World War.

After nine years there, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris, where, with the arrival of an uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world is torn open.

Asunder is a rich, resonant novel of beguiling depths and beautiful strangeness, exploring the delicate balance between creation and destruction, control and surrender.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/17/2013
ISBN: 9780544003460
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/13/2013
Library Journal 06/15/2013 pg. 78
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2013
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2013 pg. 18
Booklist 09/15/2013 pg. 28
Shelf Awareness 09/24/2013
New York Times Book Review 10/27/2013 pg. 26
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2013 pg. 3