A blog about Author/Illustrator Mira Bartok. Dear Readers: I have been quite negligent in keeping up this website/blog, but will be launching a much better website sometime this year, I promise. Mira Bartok January 11 Exactly ten years ago today, on 1/11/11, my book, The Memory Palace, a memoir about my brilliant yet schizophrenic mother, was published by Free Press (Simon &. 旧手表 - old watch download for mac. Soldat 2 for mac. These artifacts triggered a flood of memories and gave Mira access to the past that she believed had been lost forever. The Memory Palace explores the connections between mother and daughter that cannot be broken no matter how much exists - or is lost - between them. It is an astonishing literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness within a family.
Dear Readers:
I have been quite negligent in keeping up this website/blog, but will be launching a much better website sometime this year, I promise. In the meantime, you can find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mirabartokbooks/ where I post lots of drawings and other little wondernuggets. I'm also on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mirabartok/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/mirabartok
A lot of people are asking when the 2nd Wonderling book is coming out, and also, what’s going on with the movie. Here’s the latest, as of January 9th, 2021: Publication of the second Wonderling book, titled The Singing Tree, will come out in the fall of 2022 due to delays related to the pandemic. Hopefully, by then, book festivals etc. will be safe to attend.
As far as the movie goes, Fox2000, the studio that originally had purchased the rights to the book series, was taken over by Disney during the big Fox/Disney merger. Sadly, my beloved all woman team migrated to Sony to create a new studio called 3000 Pictures. (I miss them terribly!) Right now, the Wonderling movie is currently in limbo at Disney. All I know is that I THINK Stephen Daldry is still planning on directing the film. But because of the pandemic, everything is at a stand still. When I hear anything new, I’ll let you know.
On another note, these are strange and difficult times. We are being tested in so many ways. Please: try your hardest to spread hope and light. Remember who and what you love. Be humble and kind. Work toward peace. Make great art. Tell stories. Love one another. I'll be thinking of you..Love, Mira
For more information about The Wonderling and where to buy it, go HERE.
To listen to a fun interview I did on Great Big Beautiful Podcast with Jamie Green from Roarbots, go here: https://theroarbots.com/gbbp-228-mira-bartok/
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'People have abandoned their loved ones for much less than you’ve been through,' Mira Bartók is told at her mother’s memorial service. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Before she was struck with schizophrenia at the age of nineteen, beautiful piano protégé Norma Herr had been the most vibrant personality in the room. She loved her daughters and did her best to raise them well, but as her mental state deteriorated, Norma spoke less about Chopin and more about Nazis and her fear that her daughters would be kidnapped, murdered, or raped.
When the girls left for college, the harassment escalated--Norma called them obsessively, appeared at their apartments or jobs, threatened to kill herself if they did not return home. After a traumatic encounter, Mira and her sister were left with no choice but to change their names and sever all contact with Norma in order to stay safe. But while Mira pursued her career as an artist--exploring the ancient romance of Florence, the eerie mysticism of northern Norway, and the raw desert of Israel--the haunting memories of her mother were never far away.
Then one day, Mira’s life changed forever after a debilitating car accident. As she struggled to recover from a traumatic brain injury, she was confronted with a need to recontextualize her life--she had to relearn how to paint, read, and interact with the outside world. In her search for a way back to her lost self, Mira reached out to the homeless shelter where she believed her mother was living and discovered that Norma was dying.
Mira and her sister traveled to Cleveland, where they shared an extraordinary reconciliation with their mother that none of them had thought possible. At the hospital, Mira discovered a set of keys that opened a storage unit Norma had been keeping for seventeen years. Filled with family photos, childhood toys, and ephemera from Norma’s life, the storage unit brought back a flood of previous memories that Mira had thought were lost to her forever.
The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. Through stunning prose and original art created by the author in tandem with the text, The Memory Palace explores the connections between mother and daughter that cannot be broken no matter how much exists--or is lost--between them.