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L.Y. Marlow

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L.Y. Marlow is the award winning author of Color Me Butterfly, the compelling and heart wrenching story that inspired Saving Promise—a national domestic violence prevention organization inspired by five generations of mothers and daughters in her family that survived more than sixty years of domestic violence, and her granddaughter, a little girl named Promise.

Her sophomore novel, A Life Apart (Penguin Random House; April 2014) tells the poignant and compelling story of a decades-long interracial love affair between a white sailor and the sister of the black sailor who saved his life at Pearl Harbor.

Her books are hailed as a favorite amongst book lovers and book clubs. Regularly featured on national and local TV, radio, blogs, and print, L.
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Color Me Butterfly: A True ...

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Love: A Woman's Inspiration...

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“Life has a way of revealing a side of itself that no rightful mind would expect. It’s like a maze, or pieces to a puzzle, fitting together like the speckled tile beneath my feet—white blocks with spots of gray. In the end, all you are left with are random patterns,”
L.Y. Marlow, A Life Apart

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