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Lynda Rutledge is the bestselling author of "West with Giraffes," selected by Library of Congress-affiliated Texas Center for the Book as their 2023 Great Read and translated into 15 languages. She’s also the author of "Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale," winner of the 2013 Writers League of Texas Fiction Award which was adapted into the major 2019 French film "La deniére folie de Claire Darling" starring Catherine Deneuve. Her fiction has won awards and residencies from Atlantic Center for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation, among many others.

Her latest novel, "Mockingbird Summer," set in a tiny segregated town in 1964 on the eve of massive cultural change, explores the impact of great books, the burden of potentia
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Mockingbird Summer by Lynda Rutledge
“Although some things never change about growing up, the time in which you grow up isn’t one of them. It’s forever changing, shaping you in ways you can’t control or anticipate. As each year passes, the only wild card is you.”
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“the thing to remember about normal. In big times of change, normal is what is being changed.”
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A beautiful, yet sad touching story of friendship in a racially tense small Texas town set in 1964. I felt like I knew the characters and loved the maj" Read more of this review »
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“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. —Anatole France, Nobel Laureate, 1921”
Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“It is a foolish man who thinks stories do not matter—when in the end, they may be all that matter and all the forever we’ll ever know.”
Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“In a long life, there is a singular moment when you know you’ve made more memories than any new ones you’ll ever make. That’s the moment your truest stories—the ones that made you the you that you became—are ever more in the front of your mind, as you begin to reach back for the you that you deemed best.”
Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

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“You can know all about a person from the things they collect, the books on their shelves, the chairs in their parlor. … Let me into your house; I could write your life story.”
Lynda Rutledge, Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale

“Because while a journalist’s job is to tell what is true, a novelist’s job is to tell what it truth, to create a world in which you’d want to live, in which everything is just, even if only in the end.”
Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“the thing to remember about normal. In big times of change, normal is what is being changed.”
Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Although some things never change about growing up, the time in which you grow up isn’t one of them. It’s forever changing, shaping you in ways you can’t control or anticipate. As each year passes, the only wild card is you.”
Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer




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Stephanie Fitzgerald Thanks, Lynda! 📚📚📚😀


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