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Vroman's Local Author Day
September 28, 2020

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/
‘‘ 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
‘‘ . . . a great work of fiction with a realistic portrayal of a working civil engineer.”
-Ben Walpole, Taking a ‘novel’ approach to civil engineering
Finalist in Multicultural Fiction
22nd Annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Award Winning Author Website
25th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards
Download Chapter One of The Advocacy
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