YOUNG QUEENS COLOR:Book Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic

Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic detail the first two years of the Biden presidency

and relative security

But the life she left behind in the catacombs is catching up with her

the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion

YOUNG QUEENS COLOR:Book Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensicOrphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter in law.