Collectors Abroad

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)>Mary (Mim) Blair was a Chicago patron of the arts and the main character in Blair MacInnes' earlier novel </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)>A Collection of Hours</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)>.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)>In this new family saga </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)>Collectors Abroad</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)> Mim and her daughters Italia and Mildred spend a decade in Europe with a host of new characters and both adventures and misadventures.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)>Mildred's tuberculosis treatment takes them to Davos Switzerland and her first love. Italia pursues a very different type of affair. And Mim collects more than art through Switzerland Florence and Paris.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)>Embedded within the family drama including her sister's unique marital dynamic Mim and her daughters will cross paths with John Singer Sargent Lord Acton Bernard Berenson Isadora Duncan and Henri Matisse. And Mildred emerges as the Blair family collector-in- waiting. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 0.88)>Historical Fiction at its best.</strong></p><p></p>