In the Gilded Age, tour guide Armand de Potter and his beloved wife Aimee crisscross Europe in grand style. However, in 1905 Armand disappears at sea leaving behind a series of letters. Aimee searches for his body and starts to realize he wasn't who he seemed to be.
While balancing between life and death, an elderly woman remembers the terrors she faced during World War II, and the events that changed her life after the liberation. Scott lives in Brighton, NY, and teaches at UR.
In a desperate attempt to escape the embarrassment of his financial failures in America, Murray Murdoch moves his entire family to a small island off the northwest coast of Italy, but Murray soon learns he can't run from his problems.
In this disquieting novel, nominated for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award for the best work of fiction, Joanna Scott plumbs the interior life of Egon Schiele, the Austrian expressionist painter who stepped over the lines of propriety in art and in life.
In 1946, Sally Werner abandons her daughter, hoping to give the child a better life than she had, and sets off on a journey of self-discovery that will span six decades, impact future generations, and help her learn the truth about her past.
