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Annette Sandoval
writes books and eats food ​
​( eats food, then writes books )
Annette Who?
Annette’s parents are from Jalisco, Mexico. Her father was a migrant farmworker when he married his fifteen-year-old bride. Annette was born and raised in Santa Ana, California, and was named after a Mouseketeer. While in her teens, she worked at Disneyland, where she was forced to wear a paper hat and a name tag. When she got off of work, she would smoke pot in the employee parking lot, then ride Space Mountain over and over again.
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At 21, Annette moved to San Francisco, where she spent the next decade backpacking around the world, touring nearly every continent on her own.
She is the author of The Directory of Saints (Dutton/Penguin), which appeared in hardback in 1996. It was translated into Spanish for the Latin American market. Her second book, Homegrown Healing: Traditional Home Remedies from Mexico (Putnam/Berkeley), published in 1998, is one of the first modern works preserving this rich oral tradition. It was purchased by a dozen relatives and a few of her friends. Her first novel, Spitfire (Thomas & Mercer), 2012, is the first mystery novel featuring a Lantinx protagonist. The whodunit was translated into German. 10,000 Souls is her fourth book and second novel.
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Annette lives in Washington State with her environmental marine biologist partner, Philip, and their sweet, but really, really stupid golden retriever..
She can be reached at: diosmiobatman@gmail.com