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From the publisher:
1664: Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who secretly dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned, Alouette’s efforts to save him lead to her own confinement in the notorious Salpêtrière asylum, where thousands of women are held captive and cruelly treated. But within its grim walls, she discovers a small group of brave allies, and the possibility of a life bigger than she ever imagined.
1939: Kristof Larson is a medical student beginning his psychiatric residency in Paris, whose neighbors on the Rue de Gobelins are a Jewish family who have fled Poland. When Nazi forces descend on the city, Kristof becomes their only hope for survival, even as his work as a doctor is jeopardized.
Skylark is a spellbinding and transportive look at a side of Paris known to very few—the underground city that is a mirror reflection of the glories above. Paula McLain’s novel chronicles two parallel journeys of defiance and rescue that connect in ways both surprising and deeply moving.
Rapid Rating: Mild.
Profanity includes a few uses of mild language and fewer than 10 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content includes simple kissing and a brief scene that includes mentions of undressing and that the act occurs but no other details. A woman is pressed for an unwanted kiss but refuses; it is made clear a girl is sexually assaulted. A death by hanging, a suicide, a serious fall leads to death.
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