Douglas Robinson
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki 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 Blixen--of Out of Africa--fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama,...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Alone in a Helsinki café, Anna, a young journalist, spends a day drinking coffee and reading a novel about three women on a single day in different time periods. The book, a gift from her professor and now lover, an American named Ian, becomes a lens through which Anna can view her own life. The story intertwines the splintered childhood of Anna and her mentally ill brother with the troubled past of Ian and his father, a Vietnam vet. Finnish protests...