COMING SOON
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Descriptions of place and character abound, bringing the reader into rough homes and hardened people. A strong sense of individuality is created for these characters, especially Sarah and her father.
Critic’s Report - The BookLife Prize
I really enjoyed reading Sarah’s story. It was an incredibly tough read given the subject matter, but also so very inspirational. I have never read a book that so perfectly captures what it feels like to be a teenage girl. You are a gift to the literary world, and I am looking forward to reading your next book!
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The American Soul is pictured in this book. I felt myself traveling through the southern United States, driven by the music of the 1960s, in an environment where the Vietnam War marked that generation and divided the world into two. But that farm girl had her own dreams ... and fears.
This book sent me an emotional charge similar to that of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment." She has her own style and I believe she will stand out in the American literary scene.
Mauricio Munhoz - Author of Escape Route: The Untold Story of The SS
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JENNIFER ~ TAR HEEL READER
I loved the writing here. It was simple and spare while easily conveying emotion. The sense of melancholy is pronounced without being overdone. I loved the 60s musical references, too.
Books, Movies, and Black Coffee
The characters and the narrative stayed with me. I could not somehow shake off the melancholy after completing the book. This is an extremely sensitive and deftly narrated story set in the 1960s.
“I began writing by accident.” …
from an interview with Alex Pearl
“I first met Sarah as an adult minor character in a different book. She had a different name then”…
from an interview with Linda Hill
“During World War 2 my father’s plane was shot down over France. That is where the idea for The Duty of Memory was born”…
from an interview with Susan Peterson for
501 Life Magazine
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