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Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Supervision (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940 amid personal and politics turmoil. No one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family residing in German-occupied France. Not her imaginative patron and politics compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Make Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some 70 years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie's auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings concealed behind just lately found functions by those now famous abstract expressionist painters. Do they keep answers to the questions encompassing her absent aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters and moving between the past and today's, The Muralist plunges listeners in to the divisiveness of prewar politics and the generally ignored plight of European refugees refused entry to america. It captures both the interior workings of today's New York art picture and the origins of the exciting and quintessentially American university of abstract expressionism. B. A. Shapiro is a get good at at revealing to a gripping report while exploring provocative topics. In Alizée and Danielle, she has created two remarkable women, painters both, who compel us to ask, What happens when luminous expertise collides with inexorable historical makes? Does great art work have the energy to change the earth? And to what measures should a person go to thwart bad?
