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Deborah J. Brasket

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After sailing around the world with her husband and children, teaching composition and literature to college students, and fighting for affordable housing as the leader of a nonprofit, Deborah J Brasket finally settled down among the golden hills and vineyards of California's central coast to write the kinds of novels she loves to read.

Her debut novel When Things Go Missing was featured in Indies Today with a 5-star review that said:

"If this novel were compared to an art form, it would be Kintsugi, the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with gold, embracing imperfections as part of the piece’s beauty. This philosophy of resilience mirrors the painstaking healing of Franny’s flawed yet deeply relatable family in When Things Go Mi ...more

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I’ve long loved reading historical fiction. In the past some favorite authors and reads were James Clavell’s Shogun and Tai-Pan; …

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People of the Whale

by Linda Hogan

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The Yamamoto Affair: A Deep Dive to Change History (Adrian McClellan Book 1)

by Jim Sollars

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Go as a River

by Shelley Read (Goodreads Author)

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I received an ARC from Library Things, and am so glad I did. I enjoyed this novel immensely. It had all the elements I love: Adventure, romance, forbidden love, war, political intrigue. And it's based on real events: two noble people who fall in love ...more
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What’s in a Name is full of very human, touching, sometimes hilarious, and often surprising stories that dip lightly into the lives of quite a cast of characters: loners and match-makers, scoundrels and lovers, widows and retired soldiers, heart-brea ...more
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Deborah Brasket liked Lia Lorimer's review of When Things Go Missing: "A multi-layered, introspective novel An already partially dysfunctional family is ripped apart when their ‘glue’, Mom Franny, disappears. The widely differing reactions of her family, her husband, Walter’s complacency that she will return in her own t" Read more of this review »
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Deborah’s Quotes

“I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

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“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”
― Jacques Lacan

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