Dear Reader,
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I so appreciate you stopping by, reading what I write, and especially sharing my books, which are available at libraries and wherever books are sold.
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Find the Good is an audio book that I narrate. Of Bears and Ballots is also on audio.
I read all of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs on video from my house back in April. The links to those chapters are on the site. There’s a bunch Of Bears and Ballots archived events/interviews here too, if you’d like to watch them.
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With Gratitude,
Heather
Goodbye to Betty
It has been a hard few weeks, as my friend Betty was dying and then did, and we had a funeral. I was going to write something short and smart, but I can’t just yet, so instead, I hope you forgive me if I share the entire eulogy (and this kind of odd photo a friend...
“Democracy! It’s glorious chaos,” the owner of the local paper observes. It’s testimony to Lende’s special gift that, in spite of the pain and sadness involved in her political adventure, she leaves her readers with that same conclusion.
—Janet Brown, author and former bookseller (review from Shelf-Awareness).
A New York Times Bestseller
The L.A. Times called it “Part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott…”
“Lende writes emotionally but never sentimentally, giving us the best Alaska memoir of late, maybe the best ever.“
Booklist Starred Review
Available at your favorite local book seller. Also available on Kindle.