I Am Not Your Eve Katherine M Hedeen

I Am Not Your Eve Katherine M HedeenI Am Not Your Eve is the story of Teha'amana, Tahitian muse and child bride to the painter Paul Gauguin. She shares her thougths as he works on one of his masterpieces, The Spirit of The Dead Keeps Watch, a work so important to Gauguin that it haunts his later self portrait. As Teha'amana tells her story, other voices of the island rise: Hina goddess of the moon, a lizard watching from the eaves, Gauguin's mask of Teha'amana carved from one of the

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the human mind