Parade
(Book)

06/18/2024

Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down and eventually paints his wife upside down, also making her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim. At the age of twenty-two, G leaves home for a new life in a new country. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries. When a mother dies, her children confront her legacy: the stories she told, the roles she assigned to them, the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a freedom. This tells the story of G, an artist whose life contains many lives.