Praise
‘‘ Profound . . .”
-Allen Mendenhall, Southern Literary Review
https://southernlitreview.com/authors/allen-mendenhall-interviews-melissa-fischer-author-of-the-advocacy.htm
‘‘ Lehmann . . . [is] a delightful, complicated character . . .”
-Kirkus Reviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/melissa-fischer/the-advocacy/
‘‘ The symbolic transcending of gender . . . [points] towards
the possibility of a transcendence of inter-cultural conflicts.”
-Gillian Stead Eilersen,
author of Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears
‘‘ . . . a great work of fiction with a realistic portrayal of a working civil engineer.”
-Ben Walpole, Taking a ‘novel’ approach to civil engineering
Finalist in Multicultural Fiction
22nd Annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Award Winning Author Website
25th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards