TY - BOOK AU - Savas,Aysegül TI - White on white: a novel SN - 9780593330517 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead KW - Art students KW - Fiction KW - Painters KW - Creative ability KW - Mental illness KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N2 - "A new novel from the author of Walking On the Ceiling, about a woman coming undone"--; A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes. She rents an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio. In their meetings Agnes tells stories of her youth, her family, her marriage, and ideas for her art. The student is increasingly aware of Agnes's disintegration: her stories are frenetic; her art scattered and unfinished, white paint on a white canvas. The student is learning, from a cool distance, about the narrow divide between happiness and resentment, creativity and madness, contentment and chaos. -- adapted from jacket ER -