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Feb 04, 2014DanglingConversations rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This book is well written, has some brilliant insight into live in poverty stricken Paris. I will never look at a Degus painting with the same eyes. However the author falls short of genius. Why could she not have made this an epic, more complex charachter development and more detail about why some of those minor characters made those choices. Who were those ballet teachers? What were those nuns doing for fallen women. More background about the drama in the laundry and more about the life and struggles of some of the other ballerinas. If the author had taken another year to write this book it could have become a classic instead of a great read.