![]() ![]() Blum avoids the sap of happy endings and easy resolutions in this perfect encapsulation of the changing times and turbulence of mid- and late-20th-century America. Elsbeth, though pampered and privileged, throws herself into the drug-fueled, punk-populated New York City art world in 1985 to find the recognition and love she craves, risking her life through starvation to be the muse of photographer Julian. June gives up her career as a model to marry Peter and later raise their only child, Elsbeth, but then begins to doubt her suburban life-and the emotionally distant Peter-amid the women’s liberation movement in 1975. Years later, in 1965, he rises to success as a celebrated chef in New York City with the help of illegal funds from cousin Sol. ![]() Peter is haunted by his failure to save his wife and twin daughters from death in Nazi Germany. Blum ( Those Who Save Us) examines the second family of a Holocaust survivor-his restless, ex-supermodel wife and their troubled teenage daughter-in this crisp vision of how seemingly random choices test love, loyalty, and survival. ![]()
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