to the have-to/get-to junctures that scaffold our days
meeting in the crucible of their lives
He knows that he can count on his brothers
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South
The Artist and the Feast Neurodiversity to the have-to/get-to junctures thatLonglisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, The Artist and the Feast is a captivating novel of love, art, food, desire and thwarted ambition, which builds propulsively over one scorching French summer in 1920s Provence. During a scorching summer in 1920s Provence, a young journalist, Joseph Adelaide, turns up at the farmhouse of reclusive artist Edouard Tartuffe, hoping to write an article about him. There, he meets Ettie, Tartuffe's niece, who