Saving Vincent

<b>For historical fiction fans of women's untold true stories an early twentieth century novel about Jo van Gogh who battled the male-dominated art elite in her fifteen-year crusade to save her genius brother-in-law Vincent from obscurity. </b> <p/>In the tradition of <i>The Paris Bookseller </i>and <i>Her Hidden Genius</i> the story of a real woman overshadowed in history by the giant talent she saved Vincent van Gogh. <p/>How did a failed belligerent Dutch painter become one of the greatest artists of our time? <p/>In 1891 timid Jo van Gogh Bonger lives safely in the background of her art dealer husband Theo's passionate work to sell unknown artists especially his ill-fated dead brother Vincent. When Theo dies unexpectedly Jo's brief happiness is shattered. Her inheritance--hundreds of unsold paintings by Vincent--is worthless. Pressured to move to her parents' home Jo defies tradition opening a boarding house to raise her infant son alone and choosing to promote Vincent's art herself. But her ingenuity and persistence draw the powerful opposition of a Parisian art dealer who vows to stop her once and for all and so sink Vincent into obscurity. <p/><i>Saving Vincent</i> reveals there was more than one genius in the Van Gogh family.