Light: A Day in Monet's Garden Fiction_Gift_Guide There's a place for the

There's a place for the girls whom no one wants—the troublemakers

Inside you will find:

the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the 1968 Civil Rights Act

through its expansion under Stalin

The result is an intimate and probing portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little understood

Light: A Day in Monet's Garden Fiction_Gift_Guide There's a place for theA day in the life of Monet, a novel as luminous as the colors he is using to portray his garden, in his last, great paintings. "I have never read a text which goes even half as far as this one in expressing the particular poignancy which lay at the heart of the impressionist movement. I say this as an art critic. As a novelist I would simply like to pay my tribute to the mastery of language, portraiture and storytelling which Figes has now at her