Perhaps tens of thousands of books have been written about it, thousands of movies have been made about it, and hundreds of museums have been built to showcase its brutality. War destroys lives in many forms. The magnitude of its devastation ranges from large-scale catastrophe to the most basic of human beings—identity. War can annihilate a nation and even obliterate one's personhood.
B.A. Shapiro, author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger, painted how war affects people in every area of their lives in the book The Muralist. The spotlight is on an artist who fought for her family, for the country, and for herself. But her passion against war opened the gates of hell and threw her into oblivion.
