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Award winning author Victoria Avilan was born in Israel, where she learned art from her mother, and cared for sick NICU babies as a military nurse. She studied creative writing at UCLA with Australian author Claire McNab. She lives in Southern California with her wife and their Cocker Spaniels.

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	The Art of Peeling an Orange 3.34 avg rating — 848 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Small Country about to Vanish 3.68 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Alternative Ending: The Art of Peeling an Orange 3.91 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Women in Paradise 4.50 avg rating — 52 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butterflies 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Barrier 3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Delicious Life: delicacies from my mother's fusion Israeli cuisine by Victoria Avilan (Goodreads Author), Miryam Levy 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I'm again a twelve-year old dreamer, a girl fascinated by an ancient piano and with Rona Lubliner's fingers.”
― Victoria Avilan, A Small Country about to Vanish

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“Perfect vision only gets in the way, Kyra thought. We all look better when the lights are out.”
― Victoria Avilan, The Art of Peeling an Orange

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“I look around the room slowly, my loving gaze caressing the part of you Hades could not and will never have. I will keep my promise. I will show your work. In hundreds of years, when we are all dust, people”
― Victoria Avilan, The Art of Peeling an Orange

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“We have art in order not to die of the truth.―Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Victoria Avilan, The Art of Peeling an Orange

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“Perfect vision only gets in the way, Kyra thought. We all look better when the lights are out.”
― Victoria Avilan, The Art of Peeling an Orange

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“I'm again a twelve-year old dreamer, a girl fascinated by an ancient piano and with Rona Lubliner's fingers.”
― Victoria Avilan, A Small Country about to Vanish

tags: dreamy, fantasies, lesbian, nostalgic, romance, romantic, youth

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“and private, the relation between oneself and an animal, and also there is total dependency. I kept thinking as I drove home, this is all inside me, this grief, and I can’t explain it, nor do I want to, to anyone.”
― May Sarton, The House by the Sea: A Journal

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