The fortunate ones

By Ellen Umansky

Subjects: Vienna (austria), fiction, Female friendship, FICTION / Historical, Fiction, Guilt, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Painting, Fiction, historical, general, Jewish refugees, Friendship, fiction, New York Times reviewed, FICTION / Jewish, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, jewish, Jews, fiction

Description: One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.