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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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If I Had Your Face

by Frances Cha (Goodreads Author)

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Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto

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Pros: Wildly inventive characters Vivid voice Fast/fun read The plot gets a bit messy and I'm surprised to find myself writing this because I do just want everyone to be happy, but perhaps the writer is too generous with all her characters. ...more
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I will read everything Susan Choi writes. Her characters are complex and usually aren't easy to like, but being likeable isn't their job. What I love about Choi's writing is it's precision, which contrasts with those long extended scenes that don't a ...more
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Was this an article's worth of material stretched into a book? Yes! Was it enjoyable to spend time with Margareta? Also, yes! Enough so that I looked up her art. ...more
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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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