“A remarkable champion of the avant-garde, unremembered by history, is rescued from obscurity by her great-granddaughters, a pair of writing sisters. Wife of Francis Picabia, mistress of Marcel Duchamp and, later, Igor Stravinsky, close friend of Guillaume Apollinaire and many other notables, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia (who died in 1985 at age 104) was an unknown figure to her great-granddaughters, French novelists Anne—bestselling author of The Postcard—and Claire. Why was this memorable woman lost to both her family and the world? The Berests set out to explain the mystery in a curious biographical novel which traces some of Gabriële’s story, drawing on archives, interviews, and historical works... An atmospheric excavation of an unusual woman and marriage, both intriguing and remote.”
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