Northville Art House
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: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.
WEDNESDAY, May 13, 6:30-7:30 pm
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.
Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the “floating world”—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
July 8: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
PREVIOUS BOOKS
2026
March 2026 Book: The Ashtrays are Full and the Glasses are Empty by Kirsten Mickelwait
January 2026 Book: The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair.
2025
November 2025 Book: The Forest Loverby Susan Vreeland.
September 2025 Book: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
July 2025 Book: The Friday Night Club by Sophia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, and M.J. Rose
May 2025 Book: Stealing the Scream by Theodore Carter
March 2025 Book: The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak
January 2025 Book: The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
2024
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
