{"product_id":"persephones-garden-9780999193563","title":"Persephone's Garden","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\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Secret Acres","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669429391634,"sku":"9780999193563","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6bc7e2ae-83e7-4066-9a8f-87449e9a51ae.jpg?v=1733760081","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/persephones-garden-9780999193563","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}