Eldonna integrates humor into her stories to balance the complex and sometimes darker aspects of challenging situations. Her books explore the bigger questions of one's meaning and purpose, and the overlapping consequences of our choices, good and bad. She prefers hometown settings peopled with recognizable characters from the grocery store, a neighborhood cafe or noisy schoolyard. Her memoir LOST IN TRANSPLANTATION also chronicles this life-changing decision.Įldonna is drawn to stories about community-the places we live, the families we're born into, and the tribes we gravitate toward. She's also the subject of the award-winning documentary "Perfect Strangers" that follows one kidney patient and one potential kidney donor in their search for a possible match. In her second novel, CLOVER BLUE, Eldonna once again explores themes of otherness and belonging, and the true definition of home. The voice in her award-winning debut novel THIS I KNOW comes straight from the heart. Eldonna Edwards is a beloved writing instructor, keynote speaker and former creative journaling facilitator, who grew up in a large family nestled between cornfields and churches in the provincial Midwest, an upbringing that provided a fertile background from which to harvest setting and characters.
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