Beth Neff (Author of Getting Somewhere)

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Beth Neff

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in St. Louis, MO, The United States

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Literature & Fiction

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Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, E.L. Doctorow, Ann ...more

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June 2011

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My first novel, Getting Somewhere (Viking/Penquin â€� 2012) is the story of four very different girls who serve juvenile crime sentences in an alternative detention program located on an organic farm. The setting of this YA/crossover story came quite naturally to me since I am a former organic farmer, having raised vegetables and dairy goats on an eight-acre farm for over two decades. I have also worked as a journalist,sustainability activist, and community planner and now serve as the Young Adult Librarian at the Three Rivers, MI Public Library. When I am not writing or working with teens, I like to garden, read, play the guitar and piano, quilt, cook and especially catch up with the busy lives of my four kids (ages 19 to 29.)

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I have just returned from a three-day Library of Michigan conference with nearly ninety other librarians from all over the state. I now know that I have made the right decision to take on the position of Young Adult Librarian for the Three Rivers Public Library.

Not only was the conference well-organized, informative, and inspiring, I was reinforced in my belief that libraries occupy a critical ro Read more of this blog post »

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“She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.”
― Beth Neff, Getting Somewhere

tags: resolve

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“Asking a question is just another way of telling you what to do.”
― Beth Neff, Getting Somewhere

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“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away as she could, and then watching to see what would happen next, what would roll back to her, what would have gotten left behind.”
― Beth Neff, Getting Somewhere

tags: secrets, story, truth

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