VISIT BALTIMORE ART MUSEUM/READ: "MONA'S EYES" BY THOMAS SCHLESSER

To start out the new year, we'll be reading Thomas Schlesser's Mona's Eyes and visiting The Baltimore Art Museum and Brunch at Gertrude's inside the museum. We will tour the museum fortified by Brunch first.

EVENT: The Baltimore Art Museum, 10 Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD
443.573.1700

TIME: Brunch 11:00 at Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen
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NOVEL: MONA'S EYES BY THOMAS SCHLESSER
Genre: Fiction
From Amazon:
Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory “all that is beautiful in the world” before Mona loses her sight forever.

While the doctors can find no explanation for Mona’s brief episode of blindness, they agree that the threat of permanent vision loss cannot be ruled out. The girl’s grandfather, Henry, may not be able to stop his granddaughter from losing her sight, but he can fill the encroaching darkness with beauty. Every Wednesday for a year, the pair abscond together and visit a single masterpiece in one of Paris’s renowned museums. From Botticelli to Basquiat, Mona learns how each artist’s work shaped the world around them. In turn, the young girl’s world is changed forever by the power of their art. Under the kind and careful tutelage of her grandfather, Mona learns the true meaning of generosity, melancholy, love, loss, and revolution. Her perspective will never be the same—nor will the reader’s.

Mona’s Eyes is a heartfelt, enlightening journey across five centuries of Western art history. With the emotional impact of The Elegance of the Hedgehog and the readability of The Little Paris Bookshop, Thomas Schlesser’s sensational debut novel is at once a moving book about the beauty of life and a deeply touching story about the special bond between a girl and her grandfather.

Happy Reading,

Diane and Kelly