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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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Escape The Pandemic: Read a Book!
Wish you could run away from Pandemic 2020? Try escaping into a book! I’ve been reading books by other authors—turns out most books are by other authors. But if you haven’t read mine yet, then please check out They Only Eat Their Husbands. It’s my memoir of how I ran away: from love, to Alaska, […]
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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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“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.”
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“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
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
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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!
