If you have any questions, I'd love to answer them. I'm obsessed with reading, gardening, football, baking, and any form of procrastination. I explore this idea in my book, YOU WERE HERE, one in which I also play with the dramatic tension created when the reader knows more than the characters.Ĭurrently I live in Los Angeles, but have also lived in Colorado and Minnesota, two states that are big in my heart. Maybe there's a reason you feel like you already know someone you just met, or a reason you keep dreaming of the same world, but it's not your own. Maybe it's all coincidence - but maybe not. One thing I've always been fascinated by is the idea that our inexplicable fears or loves or interests could stretch back further than we consciously remember, back to past lives. In addition, I co-authored the book PSYCHIC JUNKIE. Maybe there's a reason you I'm the author of the upcoming novel TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY, as well as the novel YOU WERE HERE.

I'm the author of the upcoming novel TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY, as well as the novel YOU WERE HERE. All of it will be tested when Olivia captures a shattering, tragic moment on film, one that upends all their lives and proves that true bravery begins with an open heart.more Yet when the return home proves less safe than Delan believed, Olivia is confronted with a reality she had not expected, and is awakened to the dangers of a town patrolled by Iraqi military under curfew and constant threat.īut in this world torn apart by war, there are intoxicating sights and scents, Delan’s loving family, innocence not yet compromised, and small acts of kindness that flourish unexpectedly.

More important, though, the trip is a chance to understand Delan’s childhood and bridge the differences of their pasts.

When opportunity arrives, she seizes it, accompanying her Kurdish boyfriend, Delan, to northern Iraq for a family wedding, hoping to capture an image that lands her a job in the photo department. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist and make a difference with her work. An aspiring photographer follows her dreams and faces her fears in a poignant novel about finding beauty, promise, and love amid the chaos of war-torn An aspiring photographer follows her dreams and faces her fears in a poignant novel about finding beauty, promise, and love amid the chaos of war-torn Kurdistan.

Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar