Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary soc
ialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by fa
mily tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Toge
ther these women have a shared story to tell, as they blaze a trail across some
of the most dramatic events of the last century - revolution, totalitarianism, t
he American dream. Enraged by injustice, they are each in touch with what is mos
t painful about being human, bound together by their willingness to bring the un
speakable to light.
