From Page to Palette Book Club

From Page to Palette Book Club, presented by the Northville Art House and Northville District Library, meets on a Wednesday in January, March, May, July, September, and November, with exceptions. Unless otherwise noted, all meetings will occur at the Northville Art House from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. The next book is available for check out with a valid library card at each meeting.

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Do you love to read? Would you like to learn more about famous artists and art historical movements?

Join the Northville Art House and the Northville District Library at the Northville Art House for an art-inspired book club. Meeting bi-monthly, this book club will focus on fiction inspired by art history’s most famous (and infamous) figures. Participants will see the story come to life through presentations, and possibly art-making activities, inspired by each month’s selection.

Current Book Selection: The Ashtrays are Full and the Glasses are Empty by Kirsten Mickelwait.

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WEDNESDAY, March 11, 6:30-7:30 pm

Raised in New York’s Gilded Age, pampered heiress Sara Wiborg dreams of a more creative life than the rigid future prescribed for her. It’s only when she meets Gerald Murphy that she finds a man who shares her creative, aesthetic ideal and, after a friendship of eleven years, they marry despite the strong disapproval of her family.

Against the sizzling Jazz Age backdrop of 1920s Paris and Antibes, Sara’s innate style and gift for friendship attract the bohemian elite of the new century-including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Picasso, and Dorothy Parker. But by the 1930s, her fortune is lost and tragedy strikes-not once, but twice. Sara’s strength and resilience allow her to find a new equilibrium over time, long after the parties have ended. A heartbreaking story of love and loss, The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty follows Sara through her very modern life to reveal how tragedy can be healed by faith, unconditional love, and a creative mind.

November 2024 Book: There There by Tommy Orange

September 2024 Book: The Secret Book of Frida by F.G. Haghenbeck

July 2024 Book: Drawing Home by Jamie Brenner

May 2024 Book:Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

March 2024 Book: Georgia by Dawn Tripp

January 2024 Book: I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira