B.A. Shapiro in her novel The Muralist proffers an account of Hitler's rise to authority and American's frantic endeavor to liberate family members from Europe even as it was obstructiing permits to many migrants. However, the novel does not comprehensively focus on Hitler's rise or the American's franatic attempt, but it focuses on two woman: Alizee Benoit, a young French artist, and her great niece, Danielle Abrams (a young academic at Christie's auction house). Alizee has migrated to America and found a group of companion painters in Lee Krasner, Pollock, and Mark Rothko. The novel begins with an account of Danielle Abrams in 2015, cataloging through recently revealed Abstract Expressionist canvases and she thinks that the paintings are
