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Alan Drew is the author of the critically acclaimed Detective Benjamin Wade series of psychological thrillers, THE RECRUIT (2022) and SHADOW MAN (2017). His debut novel, GARDENS OF WATER (2008), has been translated into ten languages and published in nearly two-dozen countries. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching/Writing Fellowship. An Associate Professor of English at Villanova University where he directs the creative writing program, he lives near Philadelphia with his wife and two children. Learn more about his books at www.alan-drew.com. ...more

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Who do you credit for influencing your writing and what made you want to become a writer? Was a story, book, or individual in your life responsible for your love of words and putting them together to tell a story to share with the world? Thank You for your time and I'm looking forward to reading your books. I discovered you here. I love finding new authors to expand my reading experience. Ila

Alan Drew I'm sorry it took so long for me to answer this question. When I was in high school I was an oil painter, of landscapes mostly, and I was involved in …moreI'm sorry it took so long for me to answer this question. When I was in high school I was an oil painter, of landscapes mostly, and I was involved in musical theater. I went to college as an art major, but quickly realized that I was way out of my league with the other artists who were doing wild conceptual stuff. I then became a vocal performance major, but quickly realized that I was terrified to sing in front of people. This set off a bit of a crisis and I basically majored in beer drinking and nearly dropped out of college, but a friend of mine and I took a summer trip driving around the country. I started keeping a journal, something I'd never done in my life. I quickly grew bored of daily accounts of our activities and started writing poetry--mostly terrible stuff about a young woman I was in love with and who had recently broken up with me!--and that grew into short stories, which I found I loved writing. I'd always been a fairly good writer, so when I came back to college I changed my major to English with a concentration creative writing. Suddenly I was reading voraciously and writing constantly. Still, it wasn't for another two-decades nearly--after I became a high school teacher, after living in Turkey, after I met a friend who was writing a novel and encouraged me to do so myself--that I published my first novel, Gardens of Water. (less)

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Alan Drew I've just finished a fantastic short story collection, WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY by Lesley Nneka Arimah. The collection is about Nig…moreI've just finished a fantastic short story collection, WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY by Lesley Nneka Arimah. The collection is about Nigerian immigrants and their families, which is set both in America and Africa. There’s an element of magical realism here and stories which work as science fiction parables, but mostly these stories have moments of incredible emotional resonance and insight that often leave me incredibly moved.

Just started Janelle Brown's WATCH ME DISAPPEAR, which is a sort of psychological thriller about a young woman's search for her mother who has seemingly returned from the dead. Just a third of the way through, but reads like a big summer hit.

After that, going to jump into Michelle Richmond's THE MARRIAGE PACT.
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	Gardens of Water 3.68 avg rating — 2,576 ratings — published 2008 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Man (Detective Ben Wade #1) 3.74 avg rating — 2,023 ratings — published 2017 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Recruit (Detective Ben Wade, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 744 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“It's all a gift. All of life is a gift.”
― Alan Drew, Gardens of Water

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“Our children are not ours. That’s our mistake. We think they are. It seems so for a while—a few brief years—but they aren’t. They never were.”
― Alan Drew, Gardens of Water: A Novel

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“He was a Kurd and the world would tell him he was nothing. He was poor and the world would give him nothing. He was a Muslim and the world would ignore him, and being ignored was like being dead. The boy had his name and his name was everything. Take away his name and the boy had no future, no honor, no respect, no reason to look in a mirror and see his own perfection. “Ouch, Baba! You’re doing it too hard.” smail’s skin was red from the scrubbing. He stopped and told the boy to rinse off. What if rem did something that denied her entry to Heaven? Skin was only the container of the soul, but the soul was a fragile membrane—it could easily be ripped and once it was, there was no sewing it back together. To kill her before she destroyed that, she would remain innocent, she would enter Paradise as a child, as clean as the day she was born. And smail wouldn’t have to feel less than anyone in this world, ever.”
― Alan Drew, Gardens of Water: A Novel

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“Ben was starting to think a whole lot of white people in this country would be willing to burn it all down, democracy, America, the whole damn thing, to maintain the fantasy of their superiority.”
― Alan Drew, The Recruit

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