Ellen Urbani~ Author

But she also planned

to have a pet giraffe, become the first female Pope, and win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics despite the fact that she never managed to master the back handspring. Which tells you a thing or two about the stars she steered by.

Yet in a raucous family of Irish & Italian immigrants who all speak loudly, at once, never on coordinating subjects, she instinctively learned two things: how to whip up a mean tomato sauce from scratch, and how to tell a damn good story. Combine that with some down-home Dixie angst and boozy Celtic roots, and hell … from there it doesn’t even count as a leap to start writing like the devil.

Toss a dashing Oregon farm boy into the mix, and Ellen arrived at this axiom: Every once in a blue moon, dreams really do come true.

“The writing is gorgeous. While [Ellen’s] own story is riveting and bursting with observation, illustration, color, action, and life, the stories of the local women are extraordinary gifts of insight and caring that can make a difference in the way these women, and women like them, are seen. Perhaps understood. It is a book that one stays with, because [Ellen has] not backed away from the razor's edge - which is the truth of [her] own experience.”
- Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of The Color Purple

Ellen Urbani

When Ellen was a child, she dreamed of growing up to be a writer who lived on a farm.

But she also planned

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