"A great artist is cast into the icy Harlem River by a hit-and-run driver. His heart stops, and he sees something that defies description. Presumed dead by all who knew him and obsessed with the desire to paint the inexpressible, he embarks on a pilgrimage to seek help from holy men around the globe. But is it possible to see eternity without becoming lost within it? After a quarter of a century, when the world begins to whisper that he may be alive,...

"Lara is a captive of her mother's zeal to save artists and their works condemned by the Nazis. It's 1937, and willful heiress Leonora Calaway has brought a group of surrealists to a Mexican jungle resort. Lonely, worried, and funny, 15-year-old Lara fills her diary with preternaturally keen observations of the adults' competitive combativeness and nature's glory and perils. ... [It's] a dreamlike fable about a would-be idyll poisoned by ego, war,...