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Jared Gulian

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I write heartwarming memoir and suspenseful sci-fi. Two-time NZ bestseller. 🇺🇸🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈

I grew up in suburban Detroit and currently live on a small hobby farm in rural New Zealand. In my spare time, I enjoy what some call 'granny hobbies' — knitting, baking, reading, and limited gardening. (I broke my back in 2022, and I've been living with chronic pain ever since.)

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" The fact that you question why queer people even need to come out tells me everything I need to know about your perspective. "
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As a gay American who was briefly in the Peace Corps and has Armenian heritage, this book has many points of interest for me. It’s a memoir that deals with very difficult moments bravely and shows impressive courage through authenticity and honesty. ...more
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"I love great books. And as I read this for the twelfth or thirteenth time… after all my final edits, I felt simply very, very proud. This book is for anyone who has ever had to be true to themselves in a way that terrified them… and through the fear " Read more of this review »
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This is a fantastic memoir and graphic novel in the tradition of the moving and powerful graphic novels like Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It’s about a first generation Armenian-American learning of her family’s history during the Armenian genocide, ...more
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and the fact that this novel is written in one continuous sentence puts me off a bit at first, but then I start reading it and find it to be totally comprehensible and very engaging, and so much so, in fact, that I begin tearing through the book beca ...more
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"Woman who finds social cues baffling finds that the routines of working at a convenience store actually make sense.

Makes you question the “why” behind what we all do without thinking, from the perspective of someone trying to figure it out. Fascinat" Read more of this review »
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" I’ve had mixed feelings about this book ever since I read it almost 35 years ago! Some passages burn brightly but for so much of the book I just had n ...more "
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"This is my fourth Pynchon, and it unfortunately really quadruples down on the things I don’t like about his writing.

The characters are not real people. They don’t have names that real people would have, they don’t say or do things that real people w" Read more of this review »
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“It is a scientific fact that the crack between the stove and the kitchen counter serves as a kind of voracious black hole, sucking in all falling objects within a meter radius.”
Jared Gulian, Moon Over Martinborough: From Michigan to the Wairarapa
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston S. Churchill

“It is a scientific fact that the crack between the stove and the kitchen counter serves as a kind of voracious black hole, sucking in all falling objects within a meter radius.”
Jared Gulian, Moon Over Martinborough: From Michigan to the Wairarapa
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“I think there is a difference between comic essays and war reporting, and people can tell that.”
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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
Albert Einstein

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