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Lauren Parvizi

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Lauren Parvizi is the author of Trust Me on This and La Vie, According to Rose, winner of the 2024 Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award in the Debut category. She worked for more than a decade as a digital editor and content writer, and earned an MFA from San Francisco State University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and sons.

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The Turtle House

by Amanda Churchill (Goodreads Author)

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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

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“what you do is who you are.”
― Lauren Parvizi, La Vie, According to Rose

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“All these years haven’t been wasted; they were just your inner fermentation process at work.”
― Lauren Parvizi, La Vie, According to Rose

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“... her grandmother's love and the flavor of the food so intertwined until she couldn't think of one without the other.”
― Lauren Parvizi, Trust Me on This

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Lauren’s Quotes

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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