![]() ![]() ![]() This will be his last show, and he works desperately to redeem his professional reputation. But her father weakens and grows more irritable. After finding a medical record indicating just how ill he is, Kate challenges him, “If you don’t let me stay, I’ll tell Mom and the newspapers and your gallery how sick you are. Yet Kate can see he isn’t well, and she digs up some stubbornness of her own. I’m getting ready for a show and I need to be left alone.” “What are you doing here? How did you find me? This is no time for a family reunion. So she earns a scholarship to an art school in Detroit, where her father lives, and shows up on his doorstep. She needs to paint as she needs to breath. The only thing she ever received from him was a talent for art. He’s been too busy becoming a famous artist to pay her any mind. We share a state, and the passion with which she paints northern Michigan’s gorgeous scenery reflects my own love of “up north.” But it is her mastery of story and language that makes her one of the greats. Gloria Whelan has reconfirmed herself as one of my favorite authors with her latest book, See What I See. ![]()
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