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Advanced Praise

Advanced Praise
Mara del Río, early reader

• “A portable sanctuary disguised as a book; I smelled rain halfway through and opened a window to check.”


Esperanza Valdés, shrine-keeper, Andalucían coast

• “It doesn’t instruct; it arranges. By page ten my house felt correctly tilted toward mercy.”


Dr. Rowan Keating, field ecologist

• “Where other books speak, this one steadies. Shade where I needed it, without asking for applause.”


Sorrel Ames, poet & teacher

• “I underlined the silence between sentences. That’s where the vow lives.”


Rosa Benítez, community gardener

• “The acequia chapter moved a bench in my memory. I sat, finally.”


Calder Moss, editor, Littoral Lines Press

• “No platforms, only places where fire keeps its shape. I’ve been waiting for this articulation my whole life.” • “Letters Beneath the Fig Leaf read like instructions for remembering your own name.”


Mateo Jurado, archivist, village library

• “Salt on the rim, wind in the rigging, and a map that knows the way home.”

J. B., Author, songwriter, mariner, salt-water pilgrim