Book + Art
A Mash-Up for Art and Book Lovers!
Read the featured book in advance, then join other guests, Museum and Library staff for a lively book discussion and talk on a related artwork.
Reserve a copy of the book at www.pbclibrary.org
Book + Art: Edwidge Danticat
Saturday, April 27 / 2PM-3:30PM
Book: Edwidge Danticat, The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (2017)
Art: Mingqi funerary objects
Danticat’s book is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer, and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their work. Look across time and civilizations, view the Mingqi, or “spirit objects,” of early Chinese burials, and compare concepts of death across cultures.
This program is a partnership with the Palm Beach County Library System.