Barbara, a successful designer and cookbook author, vows to keep her family and her thirty-year marriage intact. When her Hispanic professor husband dumps her for a younger woman, she plots an over-my-dead-body warpath against the interloper—a thirtyish Halle-Berry-look-alike.

Advance Reviews for “Separated, Acting Badly,” a memoir.

“Vivacious, often hilarious, and never less than engaging.”    —Phillip Lopate

 “The wild events come alive on the page. Flores’ courage and unusual honesty result in a transformation where she shines through both as a woman and as a writer. Brava!”                                                       —Susan Cheever

Praise for

“The Great Book

of Pears”

“Beautiful and

deeply researched

little volume.”

–Raymond Sokolov,

Wall Street Journal

Buy “The Great Book

of Pears” available

from Amazon

OTHER BOOKS BY BARBARA FLORES:

Separated, Acting Badly. (Russian Hill Press. See excerpt in menu).

The Great Book of Pears (Ten Speed, 2000 IACP Cookbook Award nominee)

The Great Sunflower Book (Ten Speed, 1997)

Confusion is a State of Grace (Hazelden 1996,

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POSTER DESIGN

Barbara Flores is the graphic-designer of an iconic food and garden poster series (Celestial Arts/Ten Sped Press). Go to POSTER GALLERY

The Sunflower Poster by Barbara Flores

Chile Poster by Mark Miller

Tomatoes by Alice Waters.               

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Celestine Prophesy by James Redfield and many more.