The fortunate ones

By Ellen Umansky

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

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.