{"product_id":"women-in-passing-a-conceptual-visual-book-of-women-in-1950-s-new-york-hardcover","title":"Women in Passing: A Conceptual Visual Book of Women in 1950’s New York (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThey were seen. They were present. But too often, their names were never remembered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the streets, offices, beauty salons, shops, cafés, and neighborhoods of 1950s New York City, women were building lives, pursuing ambitions, creating businesses, working, loving, dreaming, and quietly contributing to a rapidly changing world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet history does not always remember the names of the women who lived between its celebrated moments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen in Passing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an illustrated historical fiction storybook that gives imaginative life to those women—the ones whose photographs might have survived without their names, whose faces may have appeared briefly in the background of history, and whose ordinary lives were no less meaningful simply because they went largely unrecorded.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcross \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e35 visually rich scenes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, six fictional women—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEvelyn, Lillian, Mei, Sofia, Ruth, and Francesca\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—move through 1950s New York, each carrying her own ambitions, responsibilities, disappointments, triumphs, and private hopes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey are not necessarily friends.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey do not share one life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSometimes they notice one another. Sometimes they don't.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey simply \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003epass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd in those passing moments, the book asks the reader to consider something larger: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHow many women have we seen in old photographs, city streets, workplaces, family albums, and historical records without ever knowing their names? Who were they when no one was documenting their stories? What did they want? What did they accomplish? What did they leave behind?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePairing narrative storytelling with vintage-inspired imagery, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen in Passing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e allows each scene to unfold first through words and then through its visual interpretation, creating an immersive portrait of women's lives in mid-century New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is not a story about famous women.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is a story inspired by the countless women who \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003elived, worked, dreamed, contributed, and passed through history without history always stopping to ask their names.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Details\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul data-spread=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 8.25 × 11 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInterior:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Premium Full Color\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 35 scenes\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvailable Formats:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Paperback, Hardcover \u0026amp; eBook\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Erica M. Holston\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Black Orchid Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen in Passing: A Conceptual Visual Book of Women in 1950's New York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a reflective illustrated historical fiction experience about visibility, identity, womanhood, ambition—and the significance of lives that deserved to be remembered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWritten and created by Erica M. 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