Persephone's Garden Mimi Morton Terracotta Pots and Flowers (1891-1892)

Terracotta Pots and Flowers (1891-1892)

a one-of-a-kind picture book about one immigrant family's journey north

aided by Daniel Duncan's bountiful illustrations

border crossings

during the fall of 1926

Persephone's Garden Mimi Morton Terracotta Pots and Flowers (1891-1892)Persephone's Garden is a deeply personal story and inventive study of girlhood, womanhood and motherhood, through memory, history and mythology. A children's song inspires a love of Greek mythology in a young girl. A young woman finds a career in archeology and illustration. A young mother sees her daughter become a woman, as her own mother's memories are lost.