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