Set in early twentiethcentury Spain Hidden Path is a lyrical comingofage novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the firstperson following Maria Luisa as she reflects on her life from the turn of the twentieth century through the outset of the Second Spanish Republic 19311939. She recalls growing from an imaginative tomboy into a docile wife and mother before claiming her independence as