Barbara Rose Brooker

The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess Barbara Rose Brooker

The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess follows a female Rocky who, leaving behind the generations of women defined by marriage, rises above all obstacles into her true self on her own terms as a successful artist. Dianne Roseman is programmed by her angry mother to be a Jewish princess and to define herself by marriage. After a brutal rejection, while dreaming of becoming an artist, Dianne struggles with divorce, single parenting, and a passionate love affair with David Noel, a well-known dealer of contemporary art. Against all obstacles, from 1960 and into the '80s, Dianne evolves into her true self. On her own terms, she becomes a successful artist inside the difficult world of contemporary art. The novel explores women of all generations trapped in roles imposed on them by the past.