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Elizabeth Gonzalez James

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Elizabeth is the author of MONA AT SEA, FIVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT PETER SELLERS, and THE BULLET SWALLOWER. Originally from South Texas, Elizabeth currently lives with her family in Massachusetts.

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Elizabeth Gonzalez James Read everything, read often. Read the classics, read the popular books, read hard books, read fun books, and read more Latinas.
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The Bullet Swallower

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Mona at Sea

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“Kindness is its own reward,” she said, “but cruelty is a self-inflicted wound.”
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“Death had been the process of splitting apart, and so life must be the process of being made whole.”
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“How inadequate was love when it couldn’t stop suffering?”
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“Dave Matthews is what would happen if beer pong became a person.”
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“Truly my story is the saddest of them all.”
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“...your job is just what you do. It’s not who you are.”
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“Art has to be witnessed to be finished.”
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