Letters to Gwen John

Is it a memoir? A biography? Or just a work of fiction? There are bits of everything. As the title indicates, this is a series of letters to Gwen John. The catch is that John died long before these letters were written. The author is looking at John and her art as a soul mate. She relates to her and her experiences and writes these letters to show her appreciation and work through her own experiences and challenges. In addition to learning about John, we learn a lot about Rodin and his public life as a painter and sculpture as his personal life.