The Painted Girls Bill McKibben Ideal for readers who love

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and dangerous--refuses to consider the possibility that his son has been in Ada McKinley's bed

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The Painted Girls Bill McKibben Ideal for readers who loveParis, 1878. Following their fathers sudden death, the Van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opera, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous Ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds