The Unbreakables
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My “Dalai Mamas”— I’m so blessed for all your love and support. I couldn’t make it through life’s journey without you: Lisa Eisen, Lisa Newman, Julie Kreamer, Rebecca Fishman, Randi Gideon, Dina Kaplan, Bonnie Rochman, Sharon Feldman, Amy Klein, Leslie Kaufman, Malina Saval, Melanie Killoren, Staci Chase, Lauren Geleerd, Julie Gorden, Susie Borovsky, Julie Samson, Cathie Levitt, and Marla Bark Dembitz.
Thank you #BocaBookBitches and Real-life Literary Heroines—Andrea Peskind Katz, Rochelle “YM” Weinstein, Lauren “The Good Book Fairy” Margolin, Jamie Brenner, Pam “PJ” Jenoff, Cristina Alger, Barbara Shapiro (my Beylah), Helen Hoang, Elyssa Friedland, Diane Haeger, Sande Boritz Berger, Abby Stern, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Weina Dai Randel, Kaira Rouda, Amy Blumenfeld, Mary Kubica, Patricia Sands, Jessica Morgan, Samantha Bailey, Amy Poeppel, Camille Noe Pagán, Leslie Zemeckis, Lynda Cohen Loigman, Alyson Richman, and Brenda Janowitz (the “List Whisperer”).
Many thanks to the Jewish Book Council for its fabulous support, and to the myriad online book groups, book clubs, bookstagrammers, reviewers, bloggers, podcasters, bookstores, libraries, and publications. And most importantly, my readers. This is only a partial list. I could write a novel about all those who embraced me and my work along the way, including: Great Thoughts’ Great Readers and the Fantastic Ninjas; my Tall Poppy sisters (Ann Garvin and the Pop-Stars), BLOOM; Binders; Barbara Bos (you rock) and Women Writers, Women’s Books; Jen Cannon and In Literary Love; Kristy Barrett, Tonni Callan, and A Novel Bee; Charlie Fenton and THE Book Club; Bobbi Wiedel Dumas and Sharlene Martin Moore from The Romance of Reading for their friendship and Sharlene’s gifted graphics; Readers Coffeehouse; Suzanne Weinstein Leopold; Jackie Pilossoph; Zibby Owens; Linda Levack Zagon; Robin Kall Homonoff; Jennifer Tropea O’Regan; Kate Rock; Elizabeth Silver; Scary Mommy; Grown and Flown; Bliss, Beauty and Books; Writer Unboxed; BookTrib; Richard Reeder (the man with the perfect name); The Book Stall, The Book Bin; Barbara’s Bookstore; Shakespeare & Co.; the inspiring Jamie “Soul Cycle Book Goddess” Rosenblit; Leslie Hooton; Laura Coffey at Today; my hometown book club, the Happy Bookers; and my golden network of GIRLilla Warfare readers and staff writers.
Yaffa Siman Tov, my Israeli editor (Simanim Publishing House), Toda Raba for always believing in my writing.
A special hug to Ellen Katz for keeping me centered, breathing, and on my path (ILG).
Thank you, Guy Pederson, a gifted sculptor whom we met along our Napa adventure, for advising me on the ins and outs of sculpting, Michelangelo’s habits, and who made it his personal mission to spread the word on Fugitive Colors (a girl never forgets her first).
My “beautifiers” (I couldn’t do any of these gigs without you)—Elise “Leesi B.” Brill and Diane Balke. And to photographer Tell Draper for showering me with light.
Marcy Glink (Great Events, Inc.) for her incredible warmth and creativity, and turning every special event I have into spectacular memories.
To “my” magazine editor—J. P. Anderson of Michigan Avenue. I’ve had lots of editors in this biz, but he is my fave.
My baristas—same corner, same place, same extra hot mocha—every day. This author couldn’t function without her java, her wine, and a good bourbon (yes, it is 5 p.m. somewhere, if anyone’s asking).
This book is not just my solo literary journey from prologue to epilogue, it’s about those who enable me to live and breathe my passion on a daily basis. You know who you are and just how much you mean to me. Thank you for being my tribe. I’m so profoundly grateful. xoxo
About the Author
LISA BARR is the author of the award-winning novel Fugitive Colors, a suspenseful tale of stolen art, love, lust, deception, and revenge on the eve of World War II. The novel won the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) gold medal for Best Literary Fiction 2014 and first prize at the Hollywood Film Festival (Opus Magnum Discovery Award). In addition, Lisa has served as an editor for The Jerusalem Post, managing editor of Today’s Chicago Woman and Moment magazine, and an editor/reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. Among the highlights of her career, Lisa covered the famous handshake between the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, and President Bill Clinton at the White House. Lisa is also the creator and editor of the popular parenting blog GIRLilla Warfare (www.girlillawarfare.com). She has been featured on Good Morning America, Today, Fox & Friends, and the Australia morning news show Sunrise for her work as an author, journalist, and blogger. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and three daughters (aka Drama Central).
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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