Bøker av Eric Garcia

On the surface, Cassandra French is living the typical LA lifestyle. A lawyer at a film studio, she spends her days bored by the tedium of the Business Affairs department, and her evenings either dating a string of useless men or meeting up with her girlfriends to bemoan the uselessness of said men. But luckily none of this matters, because Cassandra French has a vocation. Cassandra is a woman on a mission. And her mission is to reform men. Because how is it that she’s got such great girlfriends but she never meets a man worthy of them? How is it that a man can have no conversation skills, no manners, and no fashion sense . . . and still get his pick of beautiful women? Something has to be done.And so, in her basement, she’s set up her own finishing school for boys. There, men learn to dress well, to date well, to compliment a woman, to make great dinner conversation, and to leave behind all the arrogance, brutishness, and idiocy that society has bred into them. It’s all going brilliantly—her students are happy, Cassandra’s succeeding at something she believes in passionately—until she enrolls Jason Kelly, the studio’s biggest star. And suddenly Cassie’s in over her head. . . .

"This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It's also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language."With a reporter's eye and an insider's perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it's like to be autistic across America.Garcia began writing about autism because he was frustrated by the media's coverage of it: the myths that the disorder is caused by vaccines, the narrow portrayals of autistic people as white men working in Silicon Valley. His own life as an autistic person didn't look anything like that. He is Latino, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and works as a journalist covering politics in Washington, DC. Garcia realized he needed to put into writing what so many autistic people have been saying for years-autism is a part of their identity, they don't need to be fixed. In We're Not Broken, Garcia uses his own life as a springboard to discuss the social and policy gaps that exist in supporting those on the spectrum. From education to healthcare, he explores how autistic people wrestle with systems that were not built with them in mind. At the same time, he shares the experiences of all types of autistic people, from those with higher support needs, to autistic people of color, to those in the LGBTQ community. In doing so, Garcia gives his community a platform to articulate their own needs, rather than having others speak for them, which has been the standard for far too long

The Shadows Share is a collection of short stories addressing what happens when we suppress and hide the dark sides of our psyche/being. Each story deals with the shadow side of people and how it compels them to act and think in ways contrary to their everyday lives. The Shadows Share tackles the issue of whether or not we should embrace the dark side of our psyche/being and learn to acknowledge and express it in a productive manner. It poses the question of if it's even possible to let that hidden side of ourselves thrive in a healthy manner. No matter your opinion on the subject we can all agree that our shadow selves need to be identified, acknowledged and addressed before it forces itself to come alive in a disastrous way. One way or another the Shadow will get its Share of life and light.

Is it possible to have it all? If by 'all' you mean irritants building up into one great mess, then that's exactly what Cassandra French has got - a mother who's under house arrest for fraud, a boring job as a lawyer for a Hollywood film studio, and three men in her basement. Actually, the three men are proving to be the least of her worries.