{"id":2062,"date":"2010-11-23T17:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2010-11-23T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T22:36:22","slug":"french-milk-by-lucy-knisleytouchstone-simon-schuster-2008-originally-epigraph-publishing-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/french-milk-by-lucy-knisleytouchstone-simon-schuster-2008-originally-epigraph-publishing-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"French Milk by Lucy KnisleyTouchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2008 (originally Epigraph Publishing, 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December 2006\/January 2007, Lucy Knisley took a six-week trip to Paris with her mother to celebrate her mother’s fiftieth birthday and Lucy’s twenty-second. French Milk<\/em> is Knisley’s travel journal from that trip, and it’s a pleasing combination of photos, text, and drawings (Knisley is a cartoonist). I love all the Parisian details of this book—the buildings, the food, the great old stuff at the flea market, the art that Knisley and her mother see at the Louvre, the Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay, the Pantheon. (Knisley writes about seeing Leviathan Thot by Ernesto Neto at the Pantheon, and I was intrigued enough to go look for photographs online: whoa<\/a>.) Also pleasing: Knisley’s excursions to comic stores and English-language bookshops and her notes about what she buys: Winter’s Tale<\/em> by Mark Helprin, Perfume<\/em> by Patrick Suskind, etc. Not that the whole trip is a delight: Knisley’s about to graduate from college and is worried about finding a job, and is also dealing with general early-twenties\/being-a-grownup anxiety. (Choice page: “I’m too depressed to make this journal. All I can do now is draw happy manatee flocks” (132). With, of course, a totally excellent drawing of ten manatees looking big and smiley.) This was a quick read, and I wanted a little more—more volume, more introspection, more Paris—but I’m glad I read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December 2006\/January 2007, Lucy Knisley took a six-week trip to Paris with her mother to celebrate her mother’s fiftieth birthday and Lucy’s twenty-second. French Milk is Knisley’s travel journal from that trip, and it’s a pleasing combination of photos, text, and drawings (Knisley is a cartoonist). I love all the Parisian details of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}