Pamela Reitman brings Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life to Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books
Join Pamela Reitman, author of Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life at the Copperfield’s Books in Santa Rosa, CA on April 25th, 2025 for a night of historical fiction!
EVENT INFORMATION
April 25th, 2025
Copperfield’s Books
775 Village Ct
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
For more information, please visit Copperfield’s Books’ event site here.
Books will be available for purchase at the event, but if you can’t make it/want a book earlier, you can purchase your copy of Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life here.
About Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life:
Inspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds.
As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler’s rise to power in 1938, Charlotte’s first place prize is denied because she is a Jew, her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent form Berlin into exile with her grandparents.
When Charlotte’s grandmother leaps to her death, her Old World grandfather shocks her with the family secret, a legacy of female suicides. She struggles against her grandfather’s insistence that suicide, not art, is her destiny too.
Haunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration, Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter, to complete her monumental work “Life? Or Theater?” and get into safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.
About Pamela Reitman:
Pamela Reitman is an award-winning writer with numerous publications in literary journals, news outlets, and magazines. She has a B.A. cum laude in English from Columbia and an MPH from the University of California Berkeley. She is retired from a career in public health and community service aimed at reducing the stigma of mental illness. Ms. Reitman was a past Director of Makor Or: A Jewish Meditation Center in San Francisco. She is lay ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition. She lives in Northern California with her husband.
