‘CONNECTION’ (SELF-PORTRAIT) By Christie Cassisa “I saw the light of a sunset coming in my bathroom window in a way I had never seen before,” says Cassisa of her latest painting, a self-portrait.“I ...

One of the wonders of her new memoir, "On Sunset,” a touching and at times jaw-dropping portrait of the maternal grandparents who raised her, is that she’s only getting to this rich material now.