Key selling points

• Contemporary themes: the search for meaning and for spirituality in a secular world; the art of attention; reconciliation with the Catholic Church; the meaning and value of art (and the humanities) in the 21st century, especially art from cultures and eras radically different from our own.
• Editorial comps include: Mark Doty’s Still Life with Oysters and Lemons, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munsch by Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
• Marshall’s nonfiction and journalism have appeared in Slate, The Common, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, and elsewhere. Born in Newmarket, Ontario, she has lived in Toronto and currently resides in Rome.
• Finished books to include four-colour images throughout.

Jeannie Marshall is a writer who has been living in Italy with her family since 2002. She is the author of a non-fiction book about the implications of the worldwide change in the way that children eat. In Canada it’s called Outside the Box: Why Our Children Need Real Food, Not Food Products (Random House Canada) and in the United States it’s called The Lost Art of Feeding Kids (Beacon Press). She is a journalist and contributes articles to Macleans and The Walrus, and has published literary non-fiction essays in The Common, Brick, Literary Review of Canada, and Literary Mama. She was a staff features writer at the National Post in Toronto.

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Praise for Jeannie Marshall

“Engaging … admirably well-researched … a well-timed eye-opener.”—Chris Nuttal-Smith, Globe and Mail

“Marshall’s clear, direct book ably captures the frustrations of trying to find the healthiest path and inspiring kids to do the same.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Marshall ... writes passionately about the dangers posed by processed foods—not just to our children’s health but to our way of life, our human attachment to the 'ordinary happiness' of meals cooked at home from real foods.”—Boston Globe

“Outside the Box is about teaching kids how to appreciate real food but also about how globalization is changing the way the world eats. In this beautifully written book about what needs to be done to preserve food culture in Italy and elsewhere, Marshall makes the political personal as she explains how she is teaching her son to enjoy the pleasures of eating food prepared, cooked and lovingly shared by friends and family.”—Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics