TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dempsey,Joan
TI  - This is how it begins: a novel 
SN  - 9781631523083
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Berkeley, CA
PB  - She Writes Press
KW  - Gay teachers
KW  - Dismissal of
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Art teachers
KW  - Painting
KW  - Art thefts
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Confiscations and contributions
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Art treasures in war
KW  - Europe
KW  - Massachusetts
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-399)
N2  - "In 2009, eighty-five-year-old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson Tommy is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high school classrooms. The ensuing battle to reinstate the teachers raises the specter of Ludka's World War II past--a past she's spent a lifetime trying to forget ... As Ludka's influential family defends Tommy under increasingly vicious conditions, a stranger with connections to her past shows up and threatens to expose her for illegally hoarding a valuable painting presumed stolen by the Nazis. Only one other person knew about the painting--a man Ludka's been trying to find for sixty years"--Amazon.com
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