The Author

Elna Ruffin

Nova at a mountain overlook in the green Andes, looking out at the peaks in late light

The way through, not around.

I went looking for this book and could not find it on any shelf, so I wrote it myself.

I wrote Nova across years I did not always want to keep living. The story is hers, not mine. I changed what needed changing. I kept what was true.

I am not a guru. I am someone who has sat exactly where you might be sitting right now, body tired, heart heavy, still carrying everyone else. And I am finding my way through, not around.

Some of it is invented. The part that matters is not.

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