From the shadows of the correspondences and the contradictions of biography, the elusive Salom emerges in this boldly revealing fiction to tell her own story through the three major relationships of her life. Drawing on neglected historical sources and deftly weaving in the presentday character Anna Kane in pursuit of Lou, von der Lippe layers what is known about Salom with what can only be imagined. This is a story of love's epiphanies and pain, a lost child, and the redemptive power of words.
