Elizabeth Kostova, author of the bestseller The Historian, will read from and sign copies of her new novel, The Swan Thieves.  In this romance about a contemporary painter’s obsession with an undiscovered 19th –century Impressionist, Kostova’s theme is creative obsession and what everyday boundaries can be broken in its name.  Like The Historian, The Swan Thieves goes backward and forward in time to unravel a mystery.