Blue Desert - by Celia Jeffries (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Can Alice face her past? Blue Desert</em> is about exile, family secrets, and the power of love. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"Crossing continents, cultures, and history, this story of one woman's ordeal and renewal is filled with hope and generosity. Alice is a remarkable character whose bravery and determination are as much a part of her survival as her expansive heart, curiosity, and capacity for forgiveness....Blue Desert </em>[is] an exquisite, expansive, and transporting novel." </p><p>-Hester Kaplan, author of The Tell</em></p><p> </p><p>"In sumptuously detailed prose, Celia Jeffries weaves a fascinating, troubling tale of cultures colliding. She lures us deep into the desert, deep into the past, and deep into her imagination. A wild, gripping story, well told!"</p><p>-Debra Immergut, author of Captives</em> and You, Again</em></p><p> </p><p>"Blue Desert </em>sweeps us into Alice's astounding modern odyssey, transporting us between Northern Africa and England, between childhood and old age, between the riveting external world and its secret internal workings. With sensual detail, Jeffries blurs the boundaries between countries, between violence and desire, suffering and compassion, art and reality, until we're aching with the narrator to reach home..." </p><p>- Chris Jacox, author of Bears Dancing in the Northern Air</em>, Yale Younger Poets' Series </p><p> </p><p>"This book will astound you."</p><p>-Lesléa Newman, activist and author of I Wish My Father</em></p><p> </p><p>"An exquisite story about a woman finding her place, in the outer landscape of her surroundings as well as the inner landscape of her heart."</p><p>-Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird Sings</em></p><p> </p><p>"Blue Desert</em> is a sweeping epic of family, adventure, love and the people and places that leave indelible marks on our hearts. Told in vivid, lyrical prose, and spanning decades, cultures, and continents, Blue Desert</em> is a fierce, unflinching tale that is both deeply historical and uncannily relevant to our era. </strong>Beautifully written and deeply felt, Alice's story of life in the Sahara desert among the Tuareg-and all that comes after-opens a window between two vastly different cultures that will enchant and transport readers."</p><p>-Joy Baglio, Founder of Pioneer Valley Writing Workshop</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Blue Desert is unflinchingly adventurous, unashamedly feminist, deeply human and thoughtful. Jeffries seamlessly weaves two narratives: eighteen-year-old Alice with the Tuareg tribe in wartime Sahara and seventy-eight-year-old Alice in London-to a compelling conclusion without sacrificing the lyricism of her prose, lush grounding in the natural world, or the heartbreaking complexity of her characters."</p> - Ellen Meeropol, Author of Her Sister's Tattoo <p/><br><br><p>"Blue Desert, a page-turner of exquisite beauty, ricochets from the heyday of England's colonial power to the majestic Tuareg of the Sahara Desert. This book tunnels through time and our hearts when a young English woman finds a love that transcends the codes of two societies. Prepare to be transported.</p> <p>A good novel transports us to another place and time. A great novel makes us wish that the book would never end. I desperately did not want Blue Desert to end. Celia Jeffries has written a stunning book."</p> -Jacqueline Sheehan, New York Times bestselling author <p/><br><br><p>"Page after surprising page, Celia Jeffries carefully metes out clues to the puzzle of Alice's extraordinary life, from London to the Sahara Desert and back again. Blue Desert is a mesmerizing and unforgettable story. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop."</p> -Ellen Wittlinger, author of Someone Else's Shoes <p/><br>
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