A People Magazine Book of the Week
An NPR Best Book of the Year
"A moving and entertaining novel about how we revisit memories to make meaning for ourselves and others. . . . Ms. Schine has a wonderful ability to weave research and substantive ideas into her novels without weighing them down. Her buoyant dialogue has the zip of great comedy routines."
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Wall Street Journal "Schine's delight in language is contagious–she offers up words like baubles, turning them this way and that to catch the light. . . . A paean to the regenerative power of storytelling and to Los Angeles itself."
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Kim Hubbard, New York Times Book Review "
Künstlers in Paradise is a tender family story, but it is also a profound meditation on the nature and power of storytelling, inheritance, and legacy, the malleability and perdurability of memory."
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Boston Globe "Dreamy, drifty, and droll, studded with lush botanical description and historical gems. Schine's many fans will enjoy."
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Kirkus Reviews "Reading like a cross between
Leopoldstadt and
Down and Out in Beverly Hills, this does the trick as an emotionally resonant meditation on family, memory, and the need for stories."
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Publishers Weekly "Few authors could pull off what Cathleen Schine does in
Künstlers in Paradise: creating a seamless, multilayered saga about family dynamics and relationships, immigration, the early days of Hollywood and the often disturbingly cyclical nature of history. . . .
Künstlers in Paradise is truly a trove of unexpected rewards."
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BookPage, Starred Review
