In 'All We Know: Three Lives', author Lisa Cohen unfurls the intricate tapestries of three women whose legacies, though nearly erased by the sands of time, resonate with an extraordinary blend of cultural richness and personal complexity. Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta, and Madge Garland emerge as protagonists in their unique historical narrative, captured by Cohen with a keen sensitivity for their intellectual might, emotional landscapes, and the societal expectations they each navigated. Murphy, an intellectual powerhouse, found her voice in conversation rather than in the books she never completed. De Acosta immortalized herself as a collector of memories, treasuring the ephemera from her close bonds with legendary performers. Garland, a paragon of fashion and an advocate for women, is celebrated for her forward-thinking attitudes. Cohen weaves a narrative that is as much an investigation into the era's aesthetics and celebrity as it is a homage to these three women, who lived at the nexus of modernism's most enigmatic phases.