Still Life with Bread Crumbs

An imagined gunshot opens Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and it closes with a brand-new tin roof. A humorous and astute biography of photographer Rebecca Winter, whose work made her an unexpected hero for many women, is placed between the two. Her bank account is unstable, her profession is now in decline, and she has left the city for the middle of nowhere. There, while standing in a tree stand with a roofer called Jim Bates, she learns that life is more complex than what she perceives via a camera.

Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a masterfully crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, and her days as she learns that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined. It is a deeply moving and frequently very funny story of unexpected love.