Jessica Raya

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I was born in Montreal to American parents and raised in Vancouver, Canada. After several years of blissful wandering (Buenos Aires, New York, London...) I've settled at last in San Francisco and found a home at the Castro Writers Coop. Along the way, I've published two novels--The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club and Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit--and am currently at work on a third. I hope you enjoy my books--and if you do, please leave a review <3
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Confession: I didn't know much about the refugee crisis beyond the headlines we've all seen, and I'm not a big non-fiction reader either. So this book surprised me in so many wonderful ways. For one thing, Carstensen is a journalist who's covered the ...more
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Here's something I don't get to say or write often: Loved and Missed is one of the most beautifully written novels I have ever read. Don't be mislead by the page count—there is nothing slight about this book. The subject matter is weighty, yes, but B ...more
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Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit by Jessica Raya
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I put my whole heart into this story, so I'm a bit biased. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. So excited to share the new one when it's done! ...more
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The Sea by John Banville
"If I were John Banville, I'd be tremendously proud to find my masterpiece resting a mere two million places below Fifty Shades of Shite in the Goodreads rankings.

#arrived"
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“We didn’t talk much. The things I’d needed to say before didn’t matter anymore and what mattered now was too hard to hear. So Jamie didn’t tell me he’d be gone before Christmas, or that I was the first girl he ever loved. I didn’t tell him I had wanted it to be him all along, or that he was my first everything. Instead, we sat shivering and holding hands, and let ourselves believe we were lucky just a little while longer.”
Jessica Raya, Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

“We didn’t talk much. The things I’d needed to say before didn’t matter anymore and what mattered now was too hard to hear. So Jamie didn’t tell me he’d be gone before Christmas, or that I was the first girl he ever loved. I didn’t tell him I had wanted it to be him all along, or that he was my first everything. Instead, we sat shivering and holding hands, and let ourselves believe we were lucky just a little while longer.”
Jessica Raya, Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

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