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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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Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)

by L.M. Montgomery

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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

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Tomoko Takes the Lead (The Derby Daredevils, #3)

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I love the concept of moving the POV from team member to team member! Shelly and Kenzie were both so similar--as best friends sometimes can be--that I was curious how it would be from Shelly's POV. Ultimately, my kid and I were both less engaged with ...more
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Pros: Vivid world building Brings up the question of whether you can know your parents Compelling friendship dynamics Fun play on magic vs Magic Cons: Underwhelming mystery
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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.”
― Sari Fordham, Wait for God to Notice

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