{"product_id":"the-madeleine-project-9781939931498","title":"The Madeleine Project","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This extraordinary little book touched me deeply. Part graphic novel, part literary archeology, the author slowly unpacks a dusty cellar, and brings her subject to life. Even Madeleine's recipes have risen. Who would have guessed Twitter could be so poetic.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Bard, author of \u003ci\u003eLunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePicnic in Provence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young woman moves into a Paris apartment and discovers a storage room filled with the belongings of the previous owner, a certain Madeleine who died in her late nineties, and whose treasured possessions nobody seems to want. In an audacious act of journalism driven by personal curiosity and humane tenderness, Clara Beaudoux embarks on \u003ci\u003eThe Madeleine Project\u003c\/i\u003e, documenting what she finds on Twitter with text and photographs, introducing the world to an unsung twentieth-century figure. Along the way, she uncovers a Parisian life indelibly marked by European history. This is a graphic novel for the Twitter age, a true story that encapsulates one woman's attempt to live a life of love and meaning together with a contemporary quest to prevent that existence from slipping into oblivion. Through it all, \u003ci\u003eThe Madeleine Project\u003c\/i\u003e movingly chronicles, and allows us to reconstruct, intimate memories of a bygone era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClara Beaudoux\u003c\/b\u003e is a Paris-based journalist for the France Info news network. \u003ci\u003eThe Madeleine Project\u003c\/i\u003e has been wildly popular in France. You can follow her on Twitter at @Clarabdx.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading group guide to \u003ci\u003eThe Madeleine Project\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a related recipe booklet, is available free of charge at newvesselpress.com.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClara Beaudoux is a Paris-based journalist for the France Info news network. Her documentation of The Madeleine Project gained thousands of followers on Twitter when she initiated it in November 2015. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlison Anderson is a novelist and a translator whose previous translations include \u003ci\u003eThe 6:41 to Paris\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Elegance of the Hedgehog\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Buchillon, Switzerland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Vessel Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365812146450,"sku":"9781939931498","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_34d526ff-5439-47a4-be0c-1a7e81dc9a02.jpg?v=1728464094","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-madeleine-project-9781939931498","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}