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Cara Lopez Lee
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They Only Eat Their Husbands: Love, Travel, and the Power of Running Away
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2010
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25 Years in the Rearview Mirror: 52 Authors Look Back
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Unexpected Prisoner: Memoir of a Vietnam POW
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Back In The Real World
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Lost In L.A. – Cara Live at The Moth StorySlam in L.A.
Lost In L.A. (courtesy of The Moth) from Cara Lopez Lee on Vimeo. At The Moth StorySlam in L.A., at Busby’s East on December 11, 2019, I told a true personal story I’ve long hoped to tell, on a theme that means a lot to me: Family. It marked one of my most treasured moments […]
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THEY ONLY EAT THEIR HUSBANDS
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At 26, after a lover threatened to shoot me, I ran away to Alaska. In the Last Frontier, I landed in a love triangle with two wild alcoholics. At 35, I ran again, to backpack around the world alone. This memoir explores my path to self-destruction during 9 years in Alaska and my yearlong trek to seek recovery, and discovery. The title was inspired by a praying mantis in Thailand. The book is available now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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"I picked up this book with a bit of hesitation. I loved her previous books, but I like complex fiction and the setting seemed too trite for me even though it was historic. (Aren't we all book snobs in our own way?) The first part was flirty and fu..."
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“The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I am.”
― They Only Eat Their Husbands
― They Only Eat Their Husbands
“Running away is vastly underrated.”
― They Only Eat Their Husbands: Love, Travel, and the Power of Running Away
― They Only Eat Their Husbands: Love, Travel, and the Power of Running Away
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― The Road
― The Road
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“I don't understand this at all. I don't understand any of this. Why does a story have to be socio-anything? Politics... culture... history... aren't those natural ingredients in any story, if it's told well? I mean...' He looks around, sees hostile eyes, and realizes dimly that they see this as some sort of attack. Maybe it even is. They are thinking, he realizes, that maybe there is a sexist death merchant in their midst. 'I mean... can't you guys just let a story be a story?”
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“An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.”
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“For whatsoever from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― The Faerie Queene
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― The Faerie Queene
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Join the "They Only Eat Their Husbands" book tour adventure today! I'm leaving in an hour for Cheyenne, Wyoming, first stop on a tour that will pass through Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, California, & New Mexico. Check my website to see when I'm coming to you: http://www.caralopezlee.com/events.php
Monday, December 6, you can listen in on my radio tour as I share travel tips and talk about "They Only Eat Their Husbands: A Memoir of Alaskan Love, World Travel and the Power of Running Away." I'll be on the radio during morning drive-time from coast-to-coast. A couple of shows are national. Here's a rundown: http://www.caralopezlee.com/events.php
This Friday is my book launch for "They Only Eat Their Husbands: A Memoir of Alaskan Love World Travel, and the Power of Running Away." Someone at the Lighthouse Writers Blog is already stalking me, and I couldn't be more thrilled: http://lighthousedenver.wordpress.com
You can now order "They Only Eat Their Husbands" from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or http://www.CaraLopezLee.com/books.php .
Want a peek into the life of an obsessive-compulsive author who can't stop writing even when she's talking? Check out my guest post today on Author Patricia Stoltey's blog: http://patriciastoltey.blogspot.com/2...
Thanks for finding me, Penelope. I look forward to checking out what you're reading. Penelope wrote: "Thanks for adding me as a friend!"
Yay - I'm so glad you decided to take the plunge and join!
