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“A masterful portrait of a boldly intelligent but also determinedly self-erasing woman.”
— Historical Novels Review, May 6 2025
“Anne and Claire Berest wrote Gabriële to better understand their great-grandmother, wife and muse of the French painter Francis Picabia.”
— The Washington Post, Apr 25 2025
“The drama of Gabriële is less the life-and-death drama that drives The Postcard than the drama of biography, of how an unconventional life unfolds, and the drama of thought, specifically the ideas that change prevailing notions about mimetic art.”
— Frenchly, Apr 22 2025
Like Gabriële herself, this book takes on big ideas about modern art and modern life—without losing sight of the people caught and crushed in those turning gears.
— The New York Times Book Review, Apr 22 2025
“The most engaging part of Gabriële is the Berests’ prose: early on, the authors note that they will be telling the story in the present tense, to capture the feeling and energy of their great-grandmother. The result is a historical novel unlike any other.”
— BookPage, Apr 21 2025
“A loving tribute to an important figure of the avant garde art movement who was nearly forgotten to history.”
— TIME Magazine, Apr 1 2025
“Readers interested in WWI-era historical fiction, art history, and genealogy will be most floored by the Berest sisters’ efforts... From a storied yet painful chapter in their ancestral history, they’ve created their own dizzyingly detailed art.”
— Booklist, Mar 28 2025
“Gabriële fictionally reconstructs the life of Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, a ‘visionary art theorist’ who, as the wife of Francis Picabia and mistress of Marcel Duchamp, was embedded, literally, in the heart of the European modernist avant-garde.”
— The Globe & Mail, Mar 18 2025
“A revealing, heartrending biographical novel about a complicated woman whose imprint on art history is undeniable.”
— Foreword Reviews, Mar 1 2025
“A remarkable champion of the avant-garde, unremembered by history, is rescued from obscurity by her great-granddaughters, a pair of writing sisters... An atmospheric excavation of an unusual woman and marriage, both intriguing and remote.”
— Kirkus Reviews, Feb 1 2025
“If you loved Anne Berest’s The Postcard you absolutely must read this furtherance of her most remarkable family’s story... This is an even more astounding, fascinating and enlightening account of a clan like no other.”
— Reading the West, Jan 29 2025
“The Berest sisters follow up Anne’s The Postcard with a colorful portrait of their great-grandmother Gabriële Buffet-Picabia. With lyrical prose, the Berests blend historical context with more intimate insights.”
— Publishers Weekly, Jan 24 2025
“I think it's time we get to know this amazing author better.”
— Advanced Reading Copy, Apr 27 2024
“The vividness of Berest’s imagination is given all the more force...in quasi-Proustian flashbacks seamed with precise analysis and candid self-disclosure.”
— The Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 26 2024
“A masterfully woven family story covering five generations of women, The Postcard is a true story that reads like a novel, and a historical narrative with lessons still relevant to today.”
— Lilith Magazine, Dec 6 2023
“Will deepen readers’ understanding of that horrific event while clarifying the role of memory, loss, and the past.”
— Library Journal, Dec 4 2023
“Via an intricate web of familial and neighborly relationships, Shannon Bowring brings to life the dramas of this politely distant yet loving community.”
— NPR, Nov 20 2023
“A historical detective story about how to uncover...truths.”
— TIME Magazine, Nov 14 2023
“An “un-put-down-able” book is like a double rainbow—rare and oh so magical.”
— Washington Independent Review of Books, Nov 6 2023
“I highly recommend The Postcard... if only to learn what the true meaning of what it feels like to be the child and grandchild of survivors.”
— The Reporter, Oct 19 2023

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