Loss And The Healing Power Of Art In Selected Stories Of Susan Vreelands Girl In Hyacinth Blue

Sarah Galal ElDeen Nazem Attai Literature and the Arts Prof. Dalia ElShayal December 21, 2021 Loss and the Healing Power of Art in Selected Stories of Susan Vreelands Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland is an American author born in 1946. When she got diagnosed with Lymphoma, she was a high school English teacher aspiring to make a living out of writing. In an interview with Mary Sue Koeppel, Vreeland tells the story of the healing power of art and how it illuminated her way through her illness until she became a best-selling author. Vreeland claims that during her long nights of pain and solitude, art books gave her great comfort as she would sit for hours and admire art, contemplating the life of the artist and the conditions surrounding the painting. She claims that what fascinated her is how art outlived the artist and has a life of its own. In her interview with Koeppel, she claims that her interest in art sparked from a very young age when her grandfather, who was an artist himself, would take her to her studio and let her mix colours. Vreeland grew with sensitivity to paintings and stories. The line between the