{"product_id":"persephones-garden","title":"Persephone's Garden by Fawkes, Glynnis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersephone's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal story and inventive study of girlhood, womanhood and motherhood, through memory, history and mythology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA children's song inspires a love of Greek mythology in a young girl. A young woman finds a career in archeology and illustration. A young mother sees her daughter become a woman, as her own mother's memories are lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Glynnis Fawkes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Secret Acres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999193563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2019 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlynnis Fawkes\u003c\/b\u003e is a cartoonist and archaeological illustrator. Her comics for \u003ci\u003eMuthaMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e were nominated for an Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in 2016. Recently her work has appeared on \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker.com \u003c\/i\u003eand in the magazine. Her latest book, \u003ci\u003eReign of Crumbs\u003c\/i\u003e, is available from Kilgore Books. Her \u003ci\u003eGreek Diary\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Online Comic and won a silver medal at the Society of Illustrators MoCCA Arts Festival in 2017. In April 2016, her book \u003ci\u003eAlle Ego\u003c\/i\u003e also won the MoCCA Arts Festival Award for Excellence. She has illustrated several academic books (\u003ci\u003eThree Stones Make a Wall, Kinyras: the Divine Lyre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths\u003c\/i\u003e) and worked extensively as illustrator on archaeological projects in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, and Israel. A Fulbright Fellowship to Cyprus allowed her to publish Archaeology Lives in Cyprus (Hellenic Bank, Nicosia 2001), a book of paintings, and \u003ci\u003eCartoons of Cyprus\u003c\/i\u003e (Moufflon Publications, Nicosia, 2001). She was named among the Best American Comics Notables in 2012 and 2013 and won a Sequential Artists Workshop grant in 2013. She lives in Burlington with her music archaeologist\/classics professor husband and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secret Acres","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43656241578137,"sku":"9780999193563","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/3367\/0297\/files\/img_a5d8876f-b580-4c26-a556-e159e1f44644.jpg?v=1724645304","url":"https:\/\/bookmarksretail.store\/products\/persephones-garden","provider":"Bookmarks Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}