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M.D. Markham

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M.D. Markham is a retired physician who writes about misfits, improbable adventures and the quiet miracles hiding in everyday life. A lifelong observer of the absurd he finds inspiration in the places and people he knew growing up. 'A Garden for Ignatius' is his homage to literary humor, human resilience, and the joy of finally finding one's place in the world. ...more

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🌱 A Garden for Ignatius — A Story About Growing What Grows You

A Garden for Ignatius is a comic literary novel set in Buffalo New York, written in affectionate homage to the grand absurdities of American satire. Centered on a brilliant, belligerent, and deeply unadaptable protagonist, the novel explores what happens when moral certainty, baroque intellect, and modern life collide.

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“My wisdom comes from a long, well distinguished line of academic pygmies.”
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