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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
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When Things Go Missing

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My Book Buffet Newsletter, November 2025

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to my November newsletter, featuring updates on my publishing adventure, including my novel When Things Go Missing, as …

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When Things Go Missing by Deborah J. Brasket
"“From the start, he never believed he deserved her, like she’d taken up with him by mistake and might not stick around if he didn’t play his cards right. But he never knew which cards to play, and the fact she stuck around anyway seemed more like goo" Read more of this review »
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Over the past several weeks, I’ve been captivated by Murray’s Crossroads Trilogy. I ate up the first book, Survival of the Fittest, dove eagerly into The Quest for Home, and am well into the last book, Against All Odds. I don’t know how this series w ...more
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"As the tagline to the title states, this is a novel about everything that matters. And that is absolutely how the story unfolds. Families are complex institutions, with pre-conceived wisdoms on how parents are supposed to behave towards each other an" Read more of this review »
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"An amazing read that drew me in as if these were my own family members. Kay was so relatable for me. The entire family dynamic is relatable for my own. There was so much beautiful symbolism in the gifts Kay’s mom sends them while she’s missing. Theme" Read more of this review »
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Jacques Lacan
“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.”
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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.”
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