Mary Coin

"Marisa Silver’s Mary Coin pulls you into the story behind — and beyond — photographer Dorothea Lange and the subject of her iconic, Depression-era photo Migrant Mother. As expertly cropped and framed as a fine photographic print, this compassionate historical novel is about steely fortitude, ferocious maternal devotion and guilt, and what it means to really focus and see deeply. It’s a beautiful read, as haunting as the portrait that inspired it, and would make an especially wonderful gift coupled with a book of Lange’s photographs."