As we emerge from 2020—a year in which we needed wine for an entirely different set of terrifying reasons—and the bits of 2021 that the previous year swallowed whole, I thought I’d share some of my favorite bottles that made Field Blends a book for wine lovers everywhere. Think of these questions as good talk amongst friends at your first post-pandemic springtime gathering.
Read moreJoin us for a virtual Field Blends book launch
I am so grateful for all of your support and excitement about the upcoming release of my book, Field Blends. Lockdowns and social distancing have forced us to postpone the in-person release parties previously scheduled. Instead I’m inviting you to join me for virtual release events in the coming weeks.
Read moreSpain 🇪🇸 and Sweden 🇸🇪: Real-world snapshots from “Field Blends”
One of the things I most love about Field Blends is that its entire narrative occurs in the real-world. That is to say that one could follow the path of the characters to incredible real-world places, meet the actual people there, drink the wine, and experience that which Field Blends brings to otherwise fictional life.
Read moreMy upcoming novel “Field Blends”: Hope, reflection, and love in an era of uncertainty and doubt
Field Blends is a story of the world as it is today, consideration to the intersection of modernity, technology, nationalism, culture, and the people, pasts, and communities that give each of us roots. It is told through the eyes of friends — wine in hand — in the tumult of love and self doubt, against the backdrop of our ever-changing world. It seeks reconciliation of life amongst the monuments, hideaways, and progressive thought of great European and American cities with memories of hometowns, mother countries, and family. I have written it to be joyful of the world’s beauty and melancholy of its present failures.
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