{"product_id":"9781684429998","title":"Cities of Women","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“With a scholar’s commitment to accurate detail, and the heart of a lover of beauty, Kathleen B. Jones’s engaging and well-crafted parallel story is as colorful and lucid as the illuminated manuscripts at the center of her novel.” —Laurel Corona, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mapmaker’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA deeply affecting dual narrative separated by several centuries, \u003ci\u003eCities of Women\u003c\/i\u003e examines the lives of women who dare to challenge the social norms of their days, risking their reputations and livelihoods for the sake of their passions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral disaster, political intrigue, and extraordinary creativity, Verity finds her career on the brink of collapse by her efforts to uncover evidence of the lost artist’s existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eInspired by a decade of research, Jones has woven together a luminous and incisive masterpiece of historical fiction, evoking the spare joys and monumental pitfalls facing medieval women artists and a contemporary woman who becomes obsessed with medieval books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathleen B. Jones","offers":[{"title":"Turner Publishing Company |  Hardback  |  2023-09-05","offer_id":44229827920127,"sku":"9781684429998","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b4817b19-fc8b-4162-81b4-6d25b82275f2.jpg?v=1692983771","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781684429998","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}