{"product_id":"the-lost-masterpiece-9781643756370","title":"The Lost Masterpiece","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enigmatic painting. The mystery of who painted it. A riveting thriller from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art Forger\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a gripping novel full of plot twists, B. A. Shapiro embeds us in a circle of famous painters in late-nineteenth-century Paris, centering on the anguished Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot--the one woman in their midst who never got her due--and the story of Morisot's great-great-great-great granddaughter, Tamara Rubin, who has inherited Édouard Manet's \u003ci\u003eParty on the Seine\u003c\/i\u003e, a painting that completely upends her life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Tamara inherits \u003ci\u003eParty\u003c\/i\u003e, she discovers a long-hidden family history replete with unanswered questions: How had it been stolen by the Nazis? How had the painting managed to survive three disasters that destroyed every other artwork around it? And most of all, why had she never known about her ancestor, Berthe Morisot? As the painting begins to metamorphose into darker and more terrifying versions of itself, Tamara's ordinary life is thrown into turmoil. What wounds and resentments plagued Morisot, and to what lengths will her spirit go for revenge? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Masterpiece\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of love, adultery, betrayal, family secrets, and the grueling birth of Impressionism, taking the reader on a whirlwind adventure from the streets of Paris in the late 1800s and the studio Berthe Morisot shared with Manet, Degas, and Renoir to the present day. Shapiro brings Berthe's world to life, tracing her work through generations of descendants and introducing us to a painter as brilliant and original as her male counterparts across 150 years of triumphs, struggles, passions, animosities, and malevolence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eB. A. Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Collector's Apprentice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Muralist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Art Forger\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Boston Authors Society Award for Fiction, among other honors. Her books have been selected as community reads in numerous cities and translated throughout the world. Before becoming a novelist, she taught sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University. She and her husband, Dan, divide their time between Boston and Florida. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359397740818,"sku":"9781643756370","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_946f7ede-d748-402f-b638-8c0da416d784.jpg?v=1749590982","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lost-masterpiece-9781643756370","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}