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Finding Peace in a Fractured World: Lessons from Olive Branches Don’t Grow on Trees When a reviewer described my debut novel, Olive Branches Don’t Grow on Trees, as “healing,” I was deeply moved. In that moment, I felt I had accomplished one of

The first book in my bibliotherapy series explores a subject that often exists beyond language—grief, and our attempts to find comfort and consolation in its wake. In Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter offers healing through prose

Bibliotherapy is a therapeutic approach that uses books to promote healing and personal growth. By engaging with fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, readers gain insight into their own experiences, explore difficult emotions, develop coping

I was inspired to write Olive Branches Don’t Grow on Trees in large part because of my lifelong passion for peace. Throughout the novel, I explore the many forms war can take—not only on distant battlefields, but within families and hearts. In

DESERT GHOSTS   A fluorescent light in the hallway flickered frantically before burning out. In the sudden darkness, I could still see the paint peeling off the walls. The worn wooden floors creaked with every step. “The corner unit just