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On January 30th, I left my home and family to spend an entire month by myself on the south rim of the Grand Canyon as an Artist In Residence. The National Park Service chooses twelve people a year to revel in a month of solitude and solid work. I plan to drive the 1400 miles to Arizona so that I can have my easel, computer, and books, guitar and hiking boots. Everything else, will get left behi...
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The Crying Tree
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My Year with Harry Potter (Select)
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First Appeared in Shelf Awareness, 7/21/2011
THE BIRTH OF A BOOK (Literature & Fiction)
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The Crying Tree's debut days
Dancing in Antwerp (Health, Mind & Body)
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Essay about a YouTube film of people dancing to The Sound of Music in a railway station in Antwerp
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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anyone - but young boys - age 12 and up in particular
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“It had been so beautiful. Life had been so simple and so terribly beautiful.”
― Naseem Rakha, The Crying Tree
― Naseem Rakha, The Crying Tree
“Maybe a family is linked in ways we have no way to understand. Some unseen, cellular connection that binds us past and present. If so, perhaps when my brother died, those cells we shared died as well. And for us, that would have been the heart. Those fine, fragile walls that let us embrace life with fearlessness and faith. We suffer because our heart is dying, one small cell at a time.”
― Naseem Rakha, The Crying Tree
― Naseem Rakha, The Crying Tree
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Thanks for accepting me the other day. I just finished your book, its superb! I look forward to more :)
Thanks for letting me know. He is a master.