An afternoon with Susan Knecht: The Art Collector's Wife

Please join us for an afternoon at ABC Amsterdam to meet author Susan Knecht. She will talk about her debut novel The Art Collector's Wife, and there will be plenty of time for a Q&A about her work, her writing process, and more.
About the book:
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.
About the author:
Susan Knecht originally hails from New York. She completed the two-year Online Novel Writing Certificate Program at Stanford University. 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.’

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