Simon Schuster</br></br>Product Description</br></br>??A luminous?? Marquez-esque tale?? (<i>O?? The Oprah Magazine</i>) from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of<i> The Museum of Extraordinary Things</i>: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro?the Father of Impressionism.<BR><BR>Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s?? Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel??s mother?? a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition?? has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up?? Rachel??s salvation is their maid Adelle??s belief in her strengths?? and her deep?? life-long friendship with Jestine?? Adelle??s daughter. But Rachel??s life is not her ow