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. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama. 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, Lavi... View More...
