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Pamela Wescott has written two memoirs about lifelong losses healed by unexpected turns in relationships. They include Serving Life, about her father dying at home, and chosen by Terry Tempest Williams as a Finalist for the Bakeless Creative Nonfiction Award at Bread Loaf. When same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, Pam self-published The Love that Shouted for Joy, a collection of vignettes about complications that arose when she and Kathleen decided to marry in 2004. Pam has created a dahlia farm at her home in Hyde Park, Massachusetts with her wife Kathleen and their 12-year-old corgi Isaac. Some of her experience of the West came from bicycling cross-country to go to graduate school at UC Berkeley after getting her BA at Welles ...more

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Burnt Umber

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The Love that Shouted for Joy!

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Burnt Umber by Pamela Howland Wescott
"In Pamela Howland Wescott's debut novel "Burnt Umber," we journey alongside Doro Banyan, a privileged 63-year-old Bostonian whose comfortable but unsatisfying life is upended when she reluctantly agrees to chaperone Pedee, a sharp-witted 10-year-old " Read more of this review »
Burnt Umber by Pamela Howland Wescott
" Unlearning racism at a human pace
A gripping, warm-hearted novel about Doro, a middle age, privileged white woman artist learning about racism and white privilege through the eyes of a young African American girl. Doro also confronts her pain about " Read more of this review »
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