Apples on a Windowsill is a series of meditations on still life, photography, beauty, and marriage. Full of personal reflections, charming anecdotes, and the history behind the art of still lifes, this lyrical memoir takes us from Edmonton to Rome to museums all over North America as Lemay discusses the craft of writing, the ups and downs of being married to a painter, and her focus on living a life in art and in beauty. A must read for fans of The Flower Can Always Be Changing, Everything Affects Everyone, and Rumi and the Red Handbag.
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“What if the message, or mission, is flowers? What if the message is that you don’t need to go on an elaborate quest, that what we’re searching for is often right on the table in front of us, right on our own windowsill?”
(from Apples on a Windowsill)
Do you believe in angels?
Everything Affects Everyone is a novel about angels, an elusive photographer, art theft, libraries, a movie star, and thoughts on belief, and on the power of the question.
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“Shawna Lemay’s writing makes the miraculous accessible and the mundane seem magical. I now know that angels walk among us. Some of them write among us too. ”
Shawna Lemay is the author of Apples on a Windowsill, Everything Affects Everyone and The Flower Can Always Be Changing and other books.
Her novel, Rumi and the Red Handbag, made Harper’s Bazaar’s #THELIST (must-reads for Fall 2015), the “Most Anticipated” list on 49th Shelf, and was selected for Maria Shriver's fall reading club. Nathalie Atkinson chose Rumi and the Red Handbag for “Fall's Must-Read Fashion Books” in the Globe and Mail.
From the bestselling author of Rumi and the Red Handbag comes a new collection of brief essays about the intersection of poetry, painting, photography and beauty. Inspired by the words of Virginia Woolf, Lemay welcomes you into her home, her art and her life as a poet and photographer of the every day. Lemay shares visits to the museum with her daughter, the beauty in an average workday at the library, and encourages writers and readers to make an appointment with flowers, with life.
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