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I BELIEVE in the power of story. As a developmental editor and former director of the Stanford Publishing Courses, I’ve spent a lifetime digging out, poring over, and working with stories—the best of which have profoundly touched me and changed my worldview. Such stories—powerful, evocative and absorbing—have been instrumental in motivating me to finish my own novel Pescadero.

Pescadero is a work of fiction. The characters and story arc are imagined, but the descriptions of what today’s migrants experience as they attempt to cross America’s southern border are largely true.

The details in this novel have been shared with me personally during my experiences with undocumented migrants and those who support them at the border in Juarez, Nogales ...more

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Melissa Febos is a provocative, nuanced thinker focusing on what it means to grow up female in today's world. Tho I don't always agree with (or even understand) what she says, I find her writing quite compelling. ...more
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Love this spooky, multigenerational story set in rural Texas. The story follows several generations of Texans, from the hopeful, but reticent Polish immigrants who find living in this desolate and foreign country extremely difficult, through their tw ...more
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Fabulous book! One of my all time favorites. Lulu Miller is a storytelling master.
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“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s point of view. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
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“How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?”
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