Welcome to our January 2023 Book Club selection: The Cloisters by Katy Hays. Pick up the novel to enjoy, and we will discuss it on our January Book Club Chat on Tuesday, January 31st, at 8 pm EST. ⁠ The chats will run for about 45 minutes and be hosted by Regina Garay and Cindy Howard. Click to RSVP.

INFO ON THE BOOK SELECTION
When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum, and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination. Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling, but what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs.

INFO ON THE AUTHOR
Katy Hays is a Californian, writer, and cake enthusiast. She lives in the shadow of the Sierra with her husband and their dog, Queso. In addition to writing, Katy works as an adjunct Art History Professor teaching rural students from Truckee to Tecopa. She holds an MA in Art History from Williams College and pursued her Ph.D. in Art History at UC Berkeley. Her fiction explores how far humans are willing to go to believe the unbelievable, strange-but-real worlds and complex female friendships. When not writing (or eating cake) Katy is a skier, cyclist, trail runner, eastern Sierra enthusiast, and​ ​reader.