it took me a while to get into this book but it eventually it grew on me. its really a portrait of a woman. she is an upper middle class, very smart and cultured, and an artist.
I mention the middle class position, because the "struggles" the main character suffers, as real and horrific they are to her, can be called privileges to other people. there is also the issue of the self absorbed, oblivious, selfish "Artist" as opposed to the rest of the world.
the book takes a well deserved issue with the mistreatment of women in the art world, even today, and it is poetic in parts, but there are also some parts that drag on. I like the style of writing from different peoples points of view, all of them add something. which is why I was so disappointed to find that in the last chapter, the author chose to write from a point of view of someone who really did not matter, and was the questionable psychic. it did not ring true.