Broken Colors is the one of a kind tale of a shining life's multifaceted journey

Michele Zackheim

photo credit: Charles Ramsburg

Author Biography

For many years I was a visual artist exhibiting in museums and galleries, both in the United States and Europe. Over time, random words began to appear on my canvases . . . then poems . . . then elaborate fragments of narratives. I began to think more about writing and less about the visual world.
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Broken Colors is the one of a kind tale of a shining life's multifaceted journey

Date of Review:

02/05/2008

Published Work:

Broken Colors

Reviewer:

Source:

Midwest Book Review

Review Excerpt:

FIVE STARS

Broken Colors
Michele Zackheim
Europa Editions
116 East 16th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10003
9781933372372, $14.95 www.europaeditions.com 1-800-283-3572

Broken Colors is the novel of a talented female artist who must come to grips with the difficult realities of life. Born in England during the first world war and raised by her bohemian grandparents, Sophie Marks learns how to pour her soul into works of art; yet creativity alone cannot bring her fulfillment. After the terrible devastation of the second world war, she flees to Paris and tries to start over. She forms a relationship with a talented Italian sculptor; yet after years pass, what they had gradually crumbles away. She takes flight again, this time to the American Southwest. Brilliant yet isolated, it takes the arrival of someone from her former life to spur her to confront memories of her childhood in England and seek love renewed amid her maturity. Emotional, passionate, and introspective, Broken Colors is the one-of-a-kind tale of a shining life's multifaceted journey.