Estelle. A Novel, Paperback/Linda Stewart Henley

From 1872 to '73, renowned artist Edgar Degas called New Orleans home. Here, the narratives of two women- Estelle , his Creole cousin and sister-in-law, and Anne Gautier, who in 1970 finds a journal written by a relative who knew Degas-intersect . . . and a painting by Degas of Estelle spells trouble.