The Cloisters: A Novel by Katy Hays

 

 The Cloisters: A Novel by Katy Hays. Blackstone Publishing, 2022. Large Print edition(not edition shown). Adult fiction.

When Ann Stilwell moves to New York City from Walla Walla, Washington, she does a summer internship at The Cloisters, the medieval museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her boss, Patrick, and Rachel, another young researcher who works there, become major influences on Ann's life and work. Rachel is wealthy and seems too good a friend to be true. Leo, a gardener there, is handsome and mysterious. Ann is not sure she believes some of the new theories she is learning about tarot cards and determining fate in pre Renaissance times. 

The descriptions are marvelous. This will probably be a terrific movie. But, it reads as a cautionary tale of a young adult who is trying to decide who deserves one's trust and how to leave the past behind and find a future.