The Marriage Portrait

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As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse a...

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A poignant and nuanced portrait of a Dominican teenager's arranged marriage and immigration to New York City in the 1960s

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