Praise

‘‘ Profound . . .”

-Allen Mendenhall, Southern Literary Review
https://southernlitreview.com/authors/allen-mendenhall-interviews-melissa-fischer-author-of-the-advocacy.htm

‘‘ Lehmann . . . [is] a delightful, complicated character . . .”

-Kirkus Reviews

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/melissa-fischer/the-advocacy/

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‘‘ The symbolic transcending of gender . . . [points] towards

the possibility of a transcendence of inter-cultural conflicts.”

-Gillian Stead Eilersen,

author of Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears

full review

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‘‘ . . . a great work of fiction with a realistic portrayal of a working civil engineer.”

-Ben Walpole, Taking a ‘novel’ approach to civil engineering

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Finalist in Multicultural Fiction

22nd Annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

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