Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Girl in Hyacinth Blue now available from MacMurray & Beck

		*Girl in Hyacinth Blue* by Susan Vreeland begins with a casual invitation for one professor to drop by the house of another. When he arrives, the art professor is shown a strikingly beautiful painting that the owner claims is a Vermeer. But why, asks the art professor, is the painting unknown? In Susan Vreeland's new book, the ownership of the painting is traced back to the moment of its inspiration; and as the painting moves through each owner's hands, what was long hidden or forgotten or repressed quietly surfaces.

Susan Vreeland's short fiction has appeared in journals such as "The Missouri Review," "Confrontation," "Calyx," and "Alaska Quarterly Review." Her first novel, What Love Sees, was broadcast as a CBS Sunday night movie in 1996. She teaches English literature, creative writing and art in San Diego public schools.

MacMurray and Beck is a general trade publisher of personal nonfiction and reflective, literary novels with contemporary settings. Their editors are also drawn to works that contemplate the roles that geography, culture, family, and tradition play in our efforts to define ourselves. They search for works that are free of the modern habit of accepting the world without thought. Visit www.macmurraybeck.com for more information.