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Instead support up and coming author Jacob Paul and an indie publisher (Ig Publishing) out of Brooklyn by buying Sarah/Sara.

I am an avid reader of contemporary literature as well as historical fiction and non-fiction, poetry, pulp fiction, the odd twinkie thriller page turner, and of course, cook books. There is one book however that I can’t WAIT to read: Sarah/Sara by Jacob Paul.

Sarah/Sara is the diary of a young Orthodox Jewish woman solo-kayaking across the Arctic Ocean from Prudhoe Bay to the mouth of the McKenzie River. She’s undertaken the journey, originally her father’s retirement dream, after her parents die….

The author, (yes! he’s a friend of mine) is wickedly intelligent and subtly, dryly hilarious and I can’t wait to read this novel.

Of his own work Jake writes:

” My characters exist in a world terrorized by violent acts, a world they can only make sense of if they believe in God. Yet they are haunted by the notion that their God has created a world not worth living in. To resolve this paradox they grapple with physical texts and the natural world. They kayak the Arctic, climb the Tetons and wander the canyon lands, the conflicted Hebrew of the Psalms or Job or Genesis as vivid as their inhospitable surroundings. My books play out the danger of wedding oneself too strongly to a single reading of a foundational text: textual readings that make personal and political change impossible to achieve without either reinventing the text or reinventing one’s identity.”

Consider supporting this up and coming author by buying a pre-order copy of Sarah/Sara. Do it because he’s my friend and I would be sooo grateful! Do it because it is such an amazing thing to have written a novel! Do it because it’s going to be a fantastic read! Do it because a small grass roots (international!!) showing tells the publishers, distributors and anyone else who’s paying attention that there is a market for these novels and their writers!

And, if you’re so inclined, think of doing it Now because as I understand it, in the publishing business the pre-sale numbers will determine much else that happens with the book going forward. (“It turns out these pre-orders go towards some special accounting in the sky that matters more than other kinds of sales. I don’t know why, but I do know that it’s true. If you’re planning to buy the book anyway, please do so now through Amazon (it’ll save you five bucks too)”.

THANKS for reading!!