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Cari Noga

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I'm so appreciative of all the readers who've reviewed The Orphan Daughter and Sparrow Migrations, and especially grateful to those who have selected them as book club choices. If your club has, I'd love to have a picture for my website, or join via Skype if we can coordinate schedules. Email me at cari@carinoga.com. (You can also sign up for my author newsletter www.carinoga.com -- the best way to hear about a new book!)

If you've not read my books yet, I write resilience stories about contemporary, unconventional families. My latest, The Orphan Daughter, explores whether prickly Jane McArdle will do better at motherhood her second time around, after her orphaned niece Lucy Ortiz moves from New York City to Jane's Michigan farm. It's set wh
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Kids Kove: An elegy

ids Kove was the first public place we took our son after our axis-altering first week of parenthood. I still remember how unseasonably hot that first week of October 2005 was, the sweltering temperature incongruent with the changing fall light and ever-earlier dusks. And how relieved I was to have Kids Kove as a destination, [...]
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“this crash proved anything, it was that the future was promised to no one. This day, this moment, right now, was all that mattered.”
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