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The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes

By Mia Kankimäki
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Simon & Schuster (Adult) ISBN

9781982129194

The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes

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CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS

Discrimination: Sexism,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes,Social Issue: Slavery in Historical Context,Violence: Sexual Assault/Rape

In The Women I Think About at Night, Mia Kankimäki blends travelogue, memoir, and biography as she recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.



What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa—fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can’t Mia?



The Women I Think About at Night is part travelogue and part thrilling exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see—and change—the world.

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