Book Club is a reading group led by a volunteer DVAA Member each month. This is a public program. To participate in this program, read the book, and join the discussion on Zoom.

Jan. 21, 2026: Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gaugin by Sue Prideaux  

“An original and revealing portrait of the misunderstood French Post-Impressionist artist. Wild Thing upends much of what we thought we knew about Gauguin through new primary research, including the resurfaced manuscript of Gauguin’s most important writing, the untranslated memoir of Gauguin’s son, and a sample of Gauguin’s teeth that disproves the pernicious myth of his syphilis. In the first full biography of Paul Gauguin in thirty years, Sue Prideaux illuminates the extraordinary oeuvre of a visionary artist vital to the French avant-garde. The result is “a brilliantly readable and compassionate study of Gauguin—not just as a painter, sculptor, carver and potter, but as a human soul perpetually searching for what is always just out of reach”