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When the world stopped, art survived, and a hidden collection holds the key to a family’s truth. In 1962 Venice, Italy, seventeen-year-old Isabel is shoplifting and skipping class until she discovers a fantastical secret about her Holocaust survivor grandmother Lila: she has stashed away a collection of Renaissance Art. To be fair, it's not a complete surprise: Lila is secretive about the war and that dreadful time before when the whole living world came to a standstill. More than anything else, Isabel longs to know about her mother and father who perished. THE ART COLLECTOR'S WIFE is a story…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
When the world stopped, art survived, and a hidden collection holds the key to a family’s truth. In 1962 Venice, Italy, seventeen-year-old Isabel is shoplifting and skipping class until she discovers a fantastical secret about her Holocaust survivor grandmother Lila: she has stashed away a collection of Renaissance Art. To be fair, it's not a complete surprise: Lila is secretive about the war and that dreadful time before when the whole living world came to a standstill. More than anything else, Isabel longs to know about her mother and father who perished. THE ART COLLECTOR'S WIFE is a story that travels across the canals of Venice all the way to the catacombs of Paris in search of a family's truth.
Autorenporträt
Susan Knecht completed the two-year Online Novel Writing Certificate Program at Stanford University. Her narrative non-fiction was published in the Write On Mamas Anthology, and her short story THE HIJAB in THE GOOD REVIEW literary journal and in the Aestas 2017 edition of Fabula Press.