It’s kind of snuck up on me, but my memoir about my father is being released in paperback August 25! The book is a meditation about fathers and daughters, what it means to live outside of society, and how becoming a parent can change everything.
To celebrate, I’ll be doing a reading at A Great Good Place for Books August 25 at 7pm. Details here
I’m also signed up to do a bunch of fun events in the future:
-Sept 4, Claremont Branch Library in Berkeley 4pm
-Sept 5, Union City Library, 3:00-4:30. I’ll be teaching a memoir writing class!
-Sept 8, Book Passage SF, 6pm Ferry Building
-Sept 12, Urban Ag Festival in SF in the County Fair Building
-Sept 14, Napa Bookmine, TBD–probably food post-reading!
-Sept 26, The 20th Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, 12-4:30 Berkeley Civic Park. Robert Haas and Malcolm Margolin are also speaking.
Hope to see you out there!!
The Urban Orchardist 
Hi Novella!! So excited to add your book to my wishlist. Really enjoyed your insights today at the Union City library session. I am inspired by your journey and wisdom. Be well
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It is sort of a small world, I was thinking about George so I googled his name and up popped your book. George and I grew up in Hillsboro and he was my very first boyfriend. I moved away in 1955 and was in Monterey at Fort Ord. My uncle was working at the barber shop there on base. One day when I went to the shop with him I decided to go outside and who should march by but George and another friend of ours from Hillsboro, Dick Leinan.. We talked for awhile and he was going to be leaving shortly so I invited him to my house for dinner. That was the last time I ever saw him. But he was often on my mind.you know , you never forget your first love. I plan to read your book, Deanne A Neff