Testimonials

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  CRUMBLE is a timely, powerful and important book. Fleur Philips offers a deeply personal take on the gun debate, and reminds us of the deadly cost of intolerance. Hers is a voice to savor and to heed.

  Gayle Brandeis, author of The Book of Dead Birds

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  Fleur Philips has written a poignant coming-of-age story of a young woman who sheds her masks and finds true love and her truer self. Romantic and compelling, BEAUTIFUL GIRL reaffirms our ideals of the redemptive power of love.

  Leonard Chang, author of Triplines

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  In turns heart-stopping and heartbreaking, but ultimately hopeful, BEAUTIFUL GIRL is the powerful story of one girl's search for what each of us wants: to be seen, to be known, and to be loved for who we truly are.

  Erin McCahan, author of Love and Other Foreign...

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  Just briefly I want to say that I AM LUCKY BIRD is one of the most stunning and visceral books I've read on child abuse this last decade. It is so brilliantly and beautifully written I found myself holding my breath through many of the passages. While the author takes on a difficult topic, the writi

  ng is so compelling the pages just slipped past me. I found myself caring for Lucky Bird and being reluctant to leave her. Fleur Philips easily captures the essence of childhood, the terrors of being small and defenseless in a nightmarish world of adult alcoholics, the destruction of rape and abandonment, as well as the deep injury of a primary lack of love and early nurturing. I was mesmerized by this book. Held my breath many times over as I read passages that cut to the depths of my psyche. This author knows how to convey emotions and feelings through her characters.

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