Lisa Downey

John Bird’s wife died mysteriously right after their twins July and August were born, and he is left to raise the children alone. He’s not doing it well. He doesn’t want to explain death to them, so he tells them their mother went into the woods to live with the animals—not once imagining, of course, that it might be true.

Emma Bird finds herself...

An unconventional blend of memoir, art history, and social criticism which manages to be funny, moving, and controversial all at the same time.

This is the entertaining and personal story of a forty-something woman who decides to become an artist and discovers just how much society is involved in our creative lives. She finds powerful social...