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One Week in January

New Paintings for an Old Diary

Carson Ellis author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Chronicle Books

Published:10th Oct '24

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“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.”
Emma Straub, New York Times–bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow

Award-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. 

In 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.

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 la

ISBN: 9781797216959

Dimensions: 191mm x 229mm x 13mm

Weight: 179g

80 pages