JOURNEYS WITH JUSTINE
by Dr. Janine Canan
illustrated by Cristina Biaggi
$16.00 / ISBN-13978-1-58790-135-5 / 204 pages / paperback / 5.25” x 7.25”
Fiction / Spirituality / Women
ABOUT THE BOOK
Journeys with Justine is a stunningly original collection of tales describing the adventures and epiphanies of Justine, a contemporary seeker who travels from California to the Olympic Peninsula, New York, France, Bali and India, in search of her Self. On her journey from disillusion to illumination, she encounters artists, lovers and saints, death, Earth and the Goddess.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Janine Canan is the author of a book of essays, Goddesses, Goddesses, and several volumes of poetry including In the Palace of Creation: Selected Works 1969-1999, Changing Woman and Shapes of Self. She translated Star in My Forehead: Selected Poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, edited Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart and the award-winning anthology She Rises like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets. Canan s first book of poems was published through a National Endowment for the Arts grant; other books have been commended by Book Sense, City Lights Books, Small Press Review and anthologized. Born in Los Angeles, graduate of Stanford with distinction and New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Canan is a practicing psychiatrist in Sonoma, California. She can be visited at JanineCanan.com.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Christina Biaggi has exhibited artwork and lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe, receiving many awards. Her sculpture, drawings and collages are shown at Ceres and Flywheel Galleries in New York. Biaggi is the author of The Rule of Mars, In The Footsteps of the Goddess and Habitations of the Great Goddess. Born in Italy, resident of New York, a mother and a grandmother, Cristina has a PhD in Art & Philosophy from New York University, along with black belts in Kung Fu and Taw Kwan Do.