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This was simply wonderful. A series of stories from the modern day connected by a painting of a girl in hyacinth blue, likely a Vermeer, sequentially back through time, owner by owner, through the centuries to the day of its creation. The painting itself is the time traveler - along with the reader - surviving potential destruction by fire and flood. But it's also a journey of emotion and meaning demonstrating the power a great work of art can have over an individual, making them reluctant to part with it for any reason. Each story here had an individual with a deep emotional attachment to it, for whom the painting has a message and great meaning, and each and every single one had a completely different emotional tie, seeing something uniquely necessary to them, even precious.

Just a beautiful read and a book I will keep and treasure.