★"Luminous. ★"Haunting."- Publishers Weekly, starred review ★"Belongs on every YA shelf."- SLJ, starred review ★"A captivating and impressive."- Booklist, starred review
McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence. Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint.īy the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. "I will be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life."-Amanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one She studied theater at Northwestern University, fell in love with her husband atop a Guatemalan volcano, and now spends her days surrounded by books and kids and chocolate. teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it."- The New Yorker Joy McCullough writes books and plays from her home in the Seattle area, where she lives with her family.
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