{"product_id":"9781797216959","title":"One Week in January : New Paintings for an Old Diary","description":"\u003cp\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.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e —Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chronicle Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48227483287787,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":42.02,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781797216959-1.jpg?v=1787999253","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781797216959","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}