Origins: Sarah Pribek

On the character at the center of my first novel

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Note: A version of this essay ran on my website. Since I no longer maintain a site for my novels, and there’s been some interest in Sarah with the release of the third book in the trilogy, I’m reproducing it here.

The year that Sarah Pribek began to appear in my imagination, I had just returned to California from three…