Simone Martel
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What People Are Saying About Simone and her Work
Robert Roper
There is a tenderness in Simone Martel's prose that marries well with its cool precision. It invites us into familiar spaces—backyard gardens, bedrooms—where mythical…
Gayle Brandeis
Simone Martel shows how the most radical act can be simply trusting the female body in all its creative power, all its vulnerability.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Martel examines what it is in us that makes us yearn to grow.
Anneli Rufus
As passionate as she is eloquent.
Booklist
Martel writes with ease and grace.
Sandra Knauf
Simone Martel's beautifully cultivated garden stories range from the humorous, the tale of an errant water lily, to the profound and unexpected, how inspiration…
Faye George
The title story, "Exile's Garden," set over the border in Mexico, tells of the reunion of a troubled, war-weary couple fleeing past ghosts. Simone…