Overview
One summer day, a young artist with a newbornāsleep-deprived, desperate to escape her hot, cramped apartment and her oblivious husbandāsets off on a hike in the country with her baby boy, Sam, strapped to her front andĀ her senses fully attuned to the colors, the sounds, and the flora and fauna in the woods around her.Ā During her journey, JulieĀ reflects on her childhood, her parents, her marriage, and her path to becoming a painter. Her memories soon merge with the imaginative pictorial worlds she invents in her work, creatingĀ a glorious and perturbing narrative.
When JulieĀ suddenly realizes that theyĀ are lost, with few supplies, as darkness begins to set in, she must come to terms with the sudden gravity of her situation and invent tools for coping. She then discovers her own resourcefulness:Ā snackingĀ on wild garlic and fixingĀ a torn shoe; tucking herself and her baby into a cave for the night; climbing a tall tree for a betterĀ vantage point. Each step in the unknown terrain of the forest leads her deeper into a reckoning with survival and unresolved past issues. She invokes the struggles of painters like Artemesia Gentileschi, womenās strength in Rubensā Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus,Ā and the plights of activists like Julia Butterfly Hill, illuminating howĀ great art can be a vehicle for perspectiveāhow it teaches us how to see,Ā think, andĀ navigate obstacles and wonders and find one's way out into a capacious and self-determined life.
Beautifully told and illustrated by an established fine painter whose work has been collected around the world, Julie Heffernan'sĀ Babe in the Woods is an extraordinary journey of memory, remorse, and rebirth, and a powerful lesson in trust in one's self, offering a new way of seeingĀ for anyone who feels lost in the world.
This book title, Babe in the Woods (or, The Art of Getting Lost), ISBN: 9781643755595, by Julie Heffernan, published by Algonquin Books (September 3, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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