{"product_id":"fables-from-the-flower-world","title":"Fables from the Flower World","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaternal Mitochondria—a mother\/daughter creative duo—creating stories in poetry, fiction, and images. Miriam Sagan is a writer and Isabel Winson-Sagan a visual artist. \"Flowers from The Fable World\" explores the intricacies of the mother\/daughter relationship. A woman who desperately wants a child is given one by a mysterious stranger in a parking lot in the tropics. The child grows up, but how? Will the story be tragic, heroic, or ordinary enough? Botany and flora of all kinds appear in an accompanying suite of imagery, which tells each version in a different way. The imagery was created using suminagashi (Japanese style marbling) and ready-made images of stamp art. This theme of fluid mingling with fixed is also expressed in the method of storytelling. There are \"real\" life issues: teen pregnancy, school violence, the suffering of immigrants, the border and magical realism: a goddess disguised as a homeless woman, shape-changing, folk healing, and more. This book was created out of Miriam and Isabel's own shared imaginative concerns and extends itself towards the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miriam's Well","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67644948119869,"sku":"9781948192552","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781948192552ita.jpg?v=1791391477","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/fables-from-the-flower-world","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}