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There’s a reason why fish-out-of-water stories grab us. When characters are uprooted from what they know—when they are bewildered, baffled, and alone—they are either going to sink…or shine on. We really wonder which one. And how. We like to see the ways humans make sense of their worlds.
Whether it’s my own story as a wandering, global child; the story of how people came face-to-face with a rhinoceros; or stories of how humans began to puzzle out the bits that were left of an ancient Earth, I write a lot of fish-out-of-water stories.
Jump in with me. The water’s fine. We have lives and mysteries to explore.
Two new books about the wide, wide world ... ... and what it’s like to travel across its borders.
True Stories
A new picture book story about a rhinoceros that showed Europe an amazing animal most people were pretty sure didn’t even exist.
The other is a novel in verse based on a true story of the author’s one-year adventure traveling between Ethiopia, Africa and Boise, Africa to Boise, Idaho with the question, “What does it mean to call a place home, anyway?”
