Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them

There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.