{"product_id":"one-week-in-january-new-paintings-for-an-old-diary-9781797216959b","title":"One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Feels like reading a love story that doesn't quite know it's a love story yet, and a success story that doesn't know it’s made it\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eEmma Straub,\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e This Time Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning, beloved children's book author and illustrator Carson Ellis makes a stunning adult debut with an illustrated memoir that evocatively captures a specific cultural moment of the early 2000s and in her journey as an artist. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn January 2001, the young artist Carson Ellis moved into a warehouse in Portland, Oregon, with a group of fellow artists. For the first week she lived there, she kept a detailed diary full of dry observations, mordant wit, hijinks with friends (including her future husband, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy), and turn-of-the-millennium cultural touchstones. Now, Ellis has richly illustrated this two-decade-old journal with extraordinary new paintings in the signature style that has made her an award-winning picture book author today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This beautiful volume offers a snapshot of a bygone era, a meticulous re-creation of quotidian frustrations and small, meaningful moments, and a meditation on what it means both to start your journey as an artist and to look back at that beginning many years later.","brand":"Chronicle Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42869954314320,"sku":"9781797216959B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781797216959-l.jpg?v=1785897892","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/one-week-in-january-new-paintings-for-an-old-diary-9781797216959b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}