About this Event
Armchair Travelers Book Club invites you to join us for a captivating discssion about The Women I Think about at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes by Mia Kankimaki. Meet some unsung women as we journey together exploring different cultures, traditions, and experiences through the eyes of these remarkable women. Get ready to share your thoughts, insights, and travel dreams with fellow book lovers. Come and be a part of this exciting literary adventure!
Ticket includes a copy of The Women I Think about at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes and $15 towards your refreshments at .
- Come to meet new people and have a great conversation!
- Discussion led by Rediscovered Books Booksellers, Hanna and Rebecca G.
- Enjoy a delicious glass of wine or nosh from a James Beard nominated chef!
- Seating is limited to 12 participants, registration is required for each person.
- Haven’t finished the book? Come anyway, but we cannot promise no spoilers.
If you have already purchased the book from Rediscovered Books, please email a copy of your receipt to [email protected] and we will issue you a gift card equal to the cost of the book after you have registered.
About the Book:
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, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can't Mia?
The Women I Think About at Night is "an astute, entertaining...[and] insightful" ( Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see--and change--the world.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
TERROIR Bistro, 160 North 8th Street, Boise, United States
USD 45.57
