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Women I Think About at Night

By Mia Kankimäki

Women I Think About at Night Books

Women I Think About at Night

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In The Women I Think About at Night, Mia Kankimki blends travelogue, memoir, and biography as she recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixenof Out of Africafame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can't Mia? The Women I Think About at Night is part travelogue and part thrilling exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to seeand changethe world.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2020-11-10
Publication Date:
2020-11-10
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1982158786
ISBN13:
9781982158781
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
442 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
227 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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