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Sara Tucker

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Ebooks

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I grew up in Vermont, studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, then switched to publishing and got a job at Cosmo (Helen Gurley Brown used to give me her hand-me-downs). I now divide my time between Vermont and France. I write nonfiction--I seem to be incapable of making stuff up. I come from a big family and am fascinated by family relationships in all their glorious confusion. In my first book, Our House in Arusha, I delved into my French husband's family history and examined my own bumbling relationship with my eleven-year-old stepson. In the sequel, An Irruption of Owls, I reflected on the five years I spent as my mother's caregiver, a time of joy and sorrow. ...more

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	Our House In Arusha 3.52 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Irruption of Owls (The Snowbird Chronicles, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hale Street Gang: A Sense of Place: A Sense of Place by Sara Tucker (Goodreads Author), Lydia L. English, Bonnie Fallon 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Fountain: Stories by the Crossroads Writers Club of Fontainebleau by Sara Tucker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Constance Lindgreen (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Hale Street Gang: In Cahoots By Sara Tucker, Cookie Campbell, Loraine Chase, Charles Cooley, Ruth Demarest-Godfrey, Margaret Egerton, D'Ann Calhoun Fago, Mary Hutchinson, Cynthia Jackson, John Jackson, Mary Jacobs, Idora Tucker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Time to Say Good-bye

I began this blog seven years ago, at a turning point in my life: My mother, Idora, had recently died and I was out of a job, no longer needed to help entertain Mom's many friends and relatives, shovel her front walk, fix her meals, or drive her to the hairdresser’s. The house felt empty without her, and Patrick proposed a change of scene. His mother, who was in a nursing home, owned a spaciou Read more of this blog post »

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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Implications

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“Just before our wedding, a German coffee farmer warned me that I was about to make a big mistake. “The longer you live in Arusha, the poorer you’ll be,” he said. “Don’t give up your life in America. There is nothing for you here.” My”
― Sara Tucker, Our House In Arusha

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