{"product_id":"persephones-garden-paperback","title":"Persephone's Garden - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGlynnis Fawkes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772773269792,"sku":"9780999193563","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/85eed5a6631c1651d0dc78f36d462cd2.webp?v=1780413928","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/persephones-garden-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}