The Art Collector's Wife
FICTION | HISTORICAL
Paperback – $18.95
Publication Date: OCTOBER 2025
978-1961864320 (paperback)
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8
238 Pages
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.
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About the Author
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. The Art Collector’s Wife was shortlisted for The Santa Fe Writing Project's 2023 Literary Awards Program and reached the Scouting Programme at Cornerstones Literary Consultancy in London. Formerly a practicing psychotherapist in Northern California, she currently has a private therapy practice in Amsterdam. As a second-generation Holocaust survivor, she is keenly aware of the issues of exile, loss and the psychological devastation caused by being ‘othered.’
