Book jacket image for Women Holding Things by Maria Kalman

Harper Design

9780062846679

STARRED REVIEW

Women Holding Things

Maira Kalman’s latest tender and revealing book combines free verse and prose with paintings of women holding things both real and intangible.

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Review of ‘Women Holding Things’

I’ve been in the unofficial fan club of author and illustrator Maira Kalman for years—along with many of you, no doubt. I can’t pass up the opportunity to applaud her latest work, Women Holding Things, which combines original paintings with both free verse and prose.

Women, Kalman notes in this tender and revealing book, must…

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