I Am You by Victoria Redel
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In Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age, two young women enter the male-dominated world of art, bound together by ambition, creativity, friendship, and an increasingly complicated rivalry. As Gerta develops her own artistic talents, her relationship with the brilliant Maria becomes a dangerous tangle of devotion, obsession, and power.
Description
At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is forced to disguise herself as a boy and sent to work for a genteel Dutch family. There, she catches the attention of Maria, the family’s brilliant and beautiful daughter, who sees through Gerta’s disguise and recognizes something special in her.
Maria takes Gerta with her to Amsterdam, determined to enter the elite world of painting, a world controlled almost entirely by men. As Maria’s reputation grows and she rises through society as a gifted painter, Gerta becomes indispensable to her as confidante, muse, collaborator, and friend.
But Gerta has talents of her own.
As she begins to find her artistic voice, the bond between the two women changes. Admiration becomes competition, friendship becomes obsession, and their intertwined ambitions create a rivalry neither can easily escape. The secrets they’ve kept threaten not only their relationship but everything they have worked to build.
Set against the vibrant artistic and social world of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, I Am You reimagines the life of renowned painter Maria van Oosterwijck through the complicated relationship between two women navigating a world determined to limit them.
A richly atmospheric historical novel about gender, art, ambition, friendship, and power, I Am You explores what happens when the person who knows you best is also the person you most desperately need to surpass.
Book Details
- Author: Victoria Redel
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 1638934746
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
- Setting: Amsterdam, Dutch Golden Age
- Themes: Women Artists; Gender; Art; Friendship; Rivalry; Ambition; Dutch Golden Age; Historical Women
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