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Margot Page

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Margot Page is a writer, a sometime-traveler, and a Pacific Northwest native who remembers what the region felt like before Microsoft, Starbucks, and Amazon.

Margot’s work has recently appeared in The New York Times, Brain, Child and the Huffington Post. She is the creator of the popular “Dear Drudgery” column on the Brain, Mother blog and writes about Pope Francis, among other topics, for the Mamalode magazine web site. Paradise Imperfect: An American Family’s Move to the Mountains of Costa Rica is her debut memoir.

An excerpt, “Hola Jerry! Donde esta George?” was nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize.

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“My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.”
Margot Page, Paradise Imperfect: An American Family Moves to the Costa Rican Mountains

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“My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.”
Margot Page, Paradise Imperfect: An American Family Moves to the Costa Rican Mountains

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message 1: by Aliza

Aliza Margot! Sorry to write you via this odd method but I was thinking of you and there you are.

Have you read A Visit from the Goon Squad? If not, I think you would like it very much.

I've missed you. Wondering how you've been. I might just pick up the phone...

Love you lots, Aliza


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