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Women Holding Things & Still Life with Remorse Audiobook, by Maira Kalman Play Audiobook Sample

Women Holding Things & Still Life with Remorse Audiobook

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Read By: Maira Kalman Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780063436657

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

52

Longest Chapter Length:

24:02 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

01:29 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

6

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Publisher Description

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a collection of moving meditations on the beauty and complexity of women’s lives and roles, revealed in the things they hold, and on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory.

Women Holding Things includes thoughtful and intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations about portraits of women, both ordinary and famous. These women hold a range of objects, from the mundane—balloons, a cup, a whisk, a chicken, a hat—to the abstract—dreams and disappointments, sorrow and regret, joy and love. Kalman considers the many things that fit physically and metaphorically between women’s hands: We see a woman hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up, hold her own. In telling their stories, Kalman lays bare the essence of women’s lives—their tenacity, courage, vulnerability, hope, and pain. Ultimately, she reveals that many of the things we hold dear—as well as those that burden or haunt us—remain constant and connect us from generation to generation.

Maira Kalman’s most autobiographical and intimate work to date, Still Life with Remorse is a beautiful collection of deeply personal stories. Tracing her family’s story from her grandfather’s birth in Belarus and emigration to Tel Aviv—where she was born—Maira considers her unique family history, illuminating the complex relationship between recollection, regret, happiness, and heritage. In addition to vignettes exploring her Israeli and Jewish roots, Kalman includes short stories about other great artists, writers, and composers. Through these narratives, Kalman uses her signature wit and tenderness to reveal how family history plays an influential role in all of our work, lives, and perspectives. A feat of storytelling and vulnerability, Still Life with Remorse explores the profound hidden in the quotidian, and illuminates the powerful universal truths in our most personal family stories.

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About Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman has written and illustrated more than a dozen children’s books, including Ooh-la-la-Max in LoveWhat Pete Ate, and Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John Jay Harvey. Her children’s book 13 Words was a collaboration with Lemony Snicket. Kalman is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz on the “New Yorkistan” cover in 2001. Born in Tel Aviv, she moved to New York with her family at the age of four and now lives in Manhattan.