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Authors Eileen Garvin and Nancy Foley almost connected in Albuquerque.

Foley lived in the Duke City for about six years in the mid-1990s. Garvin resided there from 1998 to 2005. There was about a year鈥檚 gap.

Both studied at the University of New Mexico.

Foley took a class from English professor Gene Frumkin, who was the first person to advise her on fiction writing. One tidbit: 鈥淗e said it鈥檚 OK if your protagonist doesn鈥檛 behave well,鈥� she recalled.

Garvin got a Master of Arts from UNM in English language and literature and served as managing editor of New Mexico Business Weekly.

In 2018, Garvin and Foley did meet, but it was in the town of Hood River, Oregon, where both were living.

A mutual friend introduced them. From there, they connected over coffee.

That led to a literary relationship where they would read each other鈥檚 book manuscripts.

They also found out they were neighbors and became good friends.

鈥淚 can practically see her house from my house,鈥� Garvin said in a phone interview.

Foley declared in an email that Garvin 鈥渋s my writer鈥檚 group. We exchanged manuscripts right after we met, actually, and that was the first time I鈥檇 showed anyone a novel draft in well over 10 years. We just had an immediate trust and creative camaraderie.鈥�

Foley said they mostly discuss larger story issues rather than anything at the sentence level.

In the acknowledgements section of Garvin鈥檚 new novel 鈥淏umblebee Season,鈥� she described Foley as 鈥渟imply indispensable.鈥�

Garvin said in an email that she referred to Foley as indispensable for multiple reasons.

鈥淎s a reader of my early drafts, she鈥檚 offered keen insight and helpful suggestions. And as my friend, she鈥檚 a wonderful listener and her groundedness grounds me,鈥� Garvin wrote.

鈥淚t鈥檚 also immensely helpful as a writer, especially in a small town, to have a writer friend who understands what it feels like to go through the ups and downs of the business.鈥�

She added that Foley 鈥渋s the most well-read person I know.鈥�

Over the years Foley had written manuscripts of novels, but none she thought were worth pursuing until she began work in 2020 on what would become her newly published debut novel, 鈥淚 Am Agatha.鈥�

It is loosely based on the life of the late abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin. Born in small-town Canada, Martin lived in New York City and spent the last decades of her life in Galisteo and Taos.

The novel tells of the loving relationship between two older women, the painter Agatha and Alice.

Agatha invites Alice, a widow suffering from worsening dementia, to move in with her in her adobe in the remote Mesa Portales area of rural northwest New Mexico. She promises to care for her.

Alice isn鈥檛 so sure about the move. She feels she needs to stay at her home to keep watch over the grave of her 21-year-old daughter, Lorna, who died years before.

A review of the book by author Angie Kim calls Agatha 鈥渁 narrator for the ages, telling us her story in a powerful voice 鈥� lush, sharp, blunt and lyrical all at once.鈥�

Dutton has recently published Garvin鈥檚 third novel, 鈥淏umblebee Season,鈥� which is largely set in Hood River.

Its main focus is on three open-minded, humble characters 鈥� a brilliant, young, perhaps autistic, ornithologist named Abigail Plue, who is in search of a threatened native bumblebee; 23-year-old Jacob Stevenson, a commercial honeybee keeper desperate for help harvesting a large honey crop while refusing to allow his physical disability to slow him; and 14-year-old Flaco L贸pez, an intelligent undocumented migrant who leaves Michoac谩n, Mexico, and ends up staying with Jacob and helping him on the farm.

Flaco is seeking a cousin and maybe a place he can call home. He thinks he may have jeopardized his status in the 近距离内射合集 States by speaking on Univision about his simple, noble deed 鈥� volunteering to battle a nearby wildfire.

The novel shines a ray of sun on the love of nature and on a multicultural community that is generally kind and responsible except for a handful of angry flag-wavers.

Garvin鈥檚 previous bestselling novels are 鈥淭he Music of Bees,鈥� in which Stevenson was a major character, and 鈥淐row Talk,鈥� as well as her acclaimed memoir 鈥淗ow to Be a Sister.鈥� Garvin considers herself a backyard beekeeper.