In this vividly-rendered novel, Melanie Dugan reimagines the life of groundbreaking American artist Alice Neel. Neel worked in obscurity for decades, wrestling with poverty and misogyny, struggling to live life on her own terms, and to paint the way she wanted. Her life spanned World War I, the 1918 flu pandemic, women winning the right to vote in the U.S., the Great Depression, World War II, the McCarthy Era, the Civil Rights Era, and second-wave feminism.

Published by Woodpecker Lane Press, woodpeckerlanepress@gmail.com, ISBN 978-1-990612-09-1