The Mind's Eye: A Novel

Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal chord lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck North Dakota convalescent home. Ignored by the world the only resource they have left is their imagination.. As Elva and Courtney go on a fantasy trip to Italy (accompanied by Elvas long dead husband and guided by a 1910 travel book) Elva shows Courtney a new way to envision love. But to accept it and the gift of the imagination Courtney must make the trip her own--even if she destroys the art Elva holds most dear.. Written entirely in dialogue Minds Eye can be performed as readers theater but it is a fully satisfying novel. In this extraordinarily innovative profound and yet readable book Paul Fleischman makes us all feel what a powerful--and dangerous--tool the imagination can be.