“Art historian Schlesser’s vibrant English-language debut frames a survey of classical Western art with the story of a Parisian man supporting his 10-year-old granddaughter after her sudden bout of temporary blindness. Mona’s doctor, unable to explain the cause or predict whether it will recur, refers her to a psychiatrist. Instead, her grandfather surreptitiously takes her to one of the city’s museums each week for a year... Schlesser seamlessly interweaves the art lessons with Mona’s story, which concludes with an explanation for the cause of her blindness. Readers of Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World will love this.”
Read the full review in Publishers Weekly.
