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I Am You


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Historical Fiction,
  • Dutch Golden Age,
  • LGBTQ+ Romance
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Dutch Golden Age art scenes with hidden identities
  • Intense relationships that blur lines between muse and artist
  • Historical fiction exploring gender and ambition
Publisher Description

At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is forced to disguise herself as a boy and sent to work for a genteel Dutch family. When their brilliant and beautiful daughter Maria sees through Gerta's ruse, she insists that Gerta accompany her to Amsterdam and help her enter the elite, male-dominated art world.

While Maria rises in the ranks of society as a painting prodigy, Gerta makes herself invaluable in every way: confidante, muse, lover. But as Gerta steps into her own talents, their relationship fractures into a complex web of obsession and rivalry—and the secrets they keep threaten to unravel everything.

A mesmerizing historical novel, I Am You is a meditation on gender, an ode to artistic creation, and an unforgettable love story that reimagines the life of renowned still life painter Maria van Oosterwijck during the Dutch Golden Age.

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