Leaving Van Gogh is Carol Wallace’s first historical novel and it has created quite a buzz among genre luminaries. In this meticulously researched, heartrending story, Wallace re-creates the final fateful days of legendary painter Vincent Van Gogh—who, at the age of 37, shot himself long before his paintings became recognized as some of the world’s greatest works of art. “A haunting novel of bold strokes and fine-grained gestures …”—Stacy Schiff, New York Times best-selling author