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Kerala

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About Me


"Kerala Goodkin conveys the wonderfully true sense of human nature as well as the psychology of personal relationships. A perfect little novel."
- Elizabeth Taylor, Reviewer for The Providence Journal

TOP 10 REASONS TO BUY MY NOVEL
1. Because I’m tired of all this self-promotion. Buy it and read it, so you can tell others for yourself how good it is.
2. Because if you’re a twenty- or early thirty-something, this book’s for you. It’s about a girl going through a quarter-life crisis while everything around her seems to be falling apart. Can you relate? I thought so.
3. Because it’s also got some sex (girl-on-girl action), some guns (ok, one gun) and some drugs (ok, pot).
4. Because it also tells you what the meaning of life is. In case you were wondering.
5. Because we need to prove to our parents’ generation that we’re still capable of reading books. You know, those things with pages that you hold in your hands?
6. Because if you buy it through the link below, a portion of the proceeds go to my nonprofit foundation. Then you can feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
7. Because it won the Elixir Press Inaugural Fiction Award. And that's almost like a Pulitzer.
8. Because the book is so good, it left the New York Times speechless.
9. Because it’s called “How Things Break.” Aren’t you dying to find out how?
10. Because I told you so. And if everyone always listened to me, the world would be a much better place.
Click here to buy it now!

My Interests

Writing fiction/creative nonfiction, reading, biking, running, international travel, community organizing, beer tasting

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is down-to-earth and open-minded. No fakes, sleazeballs or psychos, please.

Music:

Atmosphere, Manu Chao, Orishas, Mos Def, Sweatshop Union, Joni Mitchell, Talib Kweli, Dispatch, Jack Johnson, Cake, Indigo Girls, Zap Mama, Beck, West Side Story, Les Nubians, Jurassic 5, John Coltrane, Blackalicious

Movies:

High Fidelity, Being John Malcovitch, The Motorcycle Diaries, Mean Girls, Before Night Falls, Amores Perros, The Shining, The Wizard of Oz, Annie Hall, There's Something About Mary, Pieces of April

Television:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Books:

How Things Break (Yes, ha ha, it's shameless self-promotion. I wrote it, and you should buy it!! You can read an excerpt in my blog, "How Things Break: Chapter 1")

My Blog

The Toilet Paper Wars

I wrote this for a recent Vanity Fair essay contest, which essentially asked why today's younger generations are so different from the young generations of the 60s and 70s. Alas, I didn't win the $15,...
Posted by Kerala on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:37:00 PST

How Things Break: Chapter 1

Following is an excerpt from my novel, "How Things Break," published by Elixir Press. Like it? Buy the book here. Chapter OneRandy called around 5 o'clock and asked if I wanted to go fishing. I didn't...
Posted by Kerala on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:34:00 PST