Product Description: She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints: Can her ankles take the stairs? Will her fingers open a jar? Peel an orange? But it was not always this way for Mary Felstiner, who went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother, and woke the next morning literally out of joint...read more

Product Description: Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist who created a stunning visual diary of her life as a young artist in Nazi Berlin and as a refugee in France; she died in Auschwitz at age twenty-six.To Paint Her Life tells the story of Salomon's extraordinary life and death. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)