{"product_id":"blossoms-and-bones-drawing-a-life-back-together-isbn-9780062986382","title":"Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVisionary artist and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Unknown\u003c\/em\u003e Kim Krans returns with a decadently illustrated and incredibly raw graphic memoir that chronicles her multi-layered search for truth and recovery from an eating disorder and infertility in the throes of a health and wellness-obsessed culture, touching on the healing potentials of creativity and spirituality.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith pen and paper as her trusted allies, revered visionary artist, spiritual seeker, and bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Unknown\u003c\/em\u003e, Kim Krans chronicles her deeply personal journey of recovery through drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter cancelling her flight home to wellness-obsessed Los Angeles, where Krans had been secretly experiencing a debilitating eating disorder, she finds her way to an ashram and seeks spiritual and creative refuge. For forty days she relies on “drawing the feeling” as a way to realign her relationship to food, addiction, fertility, perfectionism, and the endless messaging of “never enough” echoing throughout current culture. She makes the ashram her home and embarks on the healing process through intricately hand-drawn narration of both her inner and outer worlds, cancelling forthcoming high-profile teaching obligations and international travel. Radical simplification, meditation, community, and creativity bring her through the darkest chapter of her life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges from Krans’ deeply personal undertaking is a raw and beautiful never-before-seen artists’ document that explores what it means to prioritize truth and self-discovery in a world of relentless expectations and distractions. A memoir at its heart, \u003cem\u003eBlossoms and Bones\u003c\/em\u003e is a lifeline of light and beauty, a call to embrace our creative power, and a courageous example of realigning with one’s destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Kim's message is so moving—and incredibly important at this time, when so many people are struggling with disordered eating, addiction, and limiting beliefs. In \u003cem\u003eBlossoms and Bones\u003c\/em\u003e, Kim combines honest, vulnerable storytelling with beautiful, arresting artwork to create an inspiring and completely original memoir.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabrielle Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A combination diary and sketchbook, Krans’s depiction of her 40 days spent at an ashram recovering from an eating disorder, divorce, and multiple miscarriages is raw and, for anyone who’s wrestled the demons of perfectionism, intensely relatable....Krans’s work literally pushes the boundaries of the page. The result is vulnerable and experimental.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Krans communicates far beyond the text…using drawing and lettering styles that range from precise and elegant to sketchy and unsettling. Readers who surrender to the hallucinatory feel and flow of this will be rewarded.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I wish we all could make books like this: like if a wail could be tender, and if a scribble could contain all of humanity’s language. This book amazes.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Hart New York Times bestselling author of Rosalie Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBlossoms and Bones\u003c\/em\u003e describes what it’s like to have an eating disorder in a way I’ve never seen described before—the sudden, out-of-the-blue obsession with food and the sudden inability to recognize oneself through the obsession. Krans is a powerful storyteller: she is intuitive and direct in her words and drawings. In describing this thing that I’ve never seen described, she's taken the power of shame away from it for me—and, I hope, also for herself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiana Finck cartoonist and author of Excuse Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Required reading for anyone who needs to move through hard times and find the light within us all.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTommy Rosen author of Recovery 2 0\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shocking and compassionate images that produce remarkable insights and eventually crack the bones of sorrow to release the eternal buds of renewal.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Meade author of The Genius Myth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A revelation...a vast landscape of forgiveness, truth and possibility.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElena Brower bestselling author of Practice You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889044975845,"sku":"NP9780062986382","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062986382.jpg?v=1730230386","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/blossoms-and-bones-drawing-a-life-back-together-isbn-9780062986382","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}