Three Muses

By: Martha Anne Toll

Narrated by: Marie Hoffman

"…Three Muses captivates the reader from the first page to the last.”—Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and Enon

Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past. Katya Symanova climbs the arduous path to Prima Ballerina of the New York State Ballet, becoming enmeshed in an abusive relationship with her choreographer, who makes Katya a star but controls her life. When John receives a ticket to attend a ballet featuring Katya Symanova, a spell is cast. As John and Katya follow circuitous paths to one another, fear and promise rise in equal measure. Song, Discipline, and Memory weave their way through love and loss, heartbreak and triumph.

©2022 Martha Anne Toll (P)2022 Spotify Audiobooks

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This is a book that so many people would find interesting to listen to- it’s a quiet beautiful love story. I hope it’s doing very well. More and more I am drawn to people who are intrinsically good but make choices that are difficult but not sordid or brutal. Ordinary, good people. To spend time with people like this as a novelist seems intrinsically worthwhile.

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