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Sari Fordham is a writer, professor, and environmental activist. She has lived and worked all over the world, including Thailand, South Korea, Austria, Kenya, and Uganda. Her essays have appeared in Chattahoochee Review, Brevity, Wrath-Bearing Tree, Booth, Green Mountains Review, Passages North, and Baltimore Review. She has been the recipient of a fellowship at Djerassi Resident Artists program and a grant in nonfiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Wait for God to Notice is her first book. ...more

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Wait for God to Notice

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Year of No Clutter

by Eve O. Schaub (Goodreads Author)

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The BFG

by Roald Dahl

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)

by J.K. Rowling

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“Loss had alerted us to earlier memories, and they sat in contrast to the parent we thought we knew.”
― Sari Fordham, Wait for God to Notice

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“My father attended a one-room Adventist school. He could barely read or write, and during class, he wandered around the room, no doubt annoying his teacher. Yet she responded with kindness, igniting in my father an admiration for the profession and an awareness of how one teacher can change someone’s life trajectory.”
― Sari Fordham, Wait for God to Notice

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“We know and don’t know our parents in equal parts.”
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