B&N Book Club: Katy Hays - THE CLOISTERS

Join Barnes & Noble as we welcome Katy Hays for a live, virtual event to discuss our November B&N Book Club pick, THE CLOISTERS !

The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters.

If you don't have a copy, please order the B&N Exclusive edition of THE CLOISTERS before our book club. This special edition of the book will have unique endpapers.

An audiobook edition of the book is available here

Katy Hayes will be joined in the discussion by Shannon DeVito, Director of Category Management at B&N and Miwa Messer, Editorial Director at B&N.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be spoilers at this book club event!

**Have a question for the discussion? Leave one at registration and it could possibly be answered live!

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About THE CLOISTERS:

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.

Desperate to escape her painful past, 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.

A haunting and magical blend of genres, The Cloisters is a gripping debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

About Katy Hays:

Katy Hays is a writer and adjunct art history professor in California, where she teaches rural students from Truckee to Tecopa. She holds an MA in art history from Williams College and pursued her PhD at UC Berkeley. Having previously worked at major art institutions, including The Clark Art Institute and SF MoMA, she now lives with her husband and dog, Queso, in Olympic Valley, California. The Cloisters is her first novel.