Auston Habershaw
Author of If Wishes Were Retail
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Works by Auston Habershaw
The Masochist's Assistant 1 copy
The Epic Troll 1 copy
Associated Works
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 31 (2015) — Contributor — 79 copies, 13 reviews
Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors (2016) — Contributor, some editions — 24 copies, 1 review
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January/February 2020, Vol. 138, Nos. 1 & 2 (2020) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI (2023) — Contributor — 6 copies
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- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Massachusetts, USA
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RECOMMENDED: What a marvelous summer read -- although it is a book for all seasons. In the final chapters, there will be tears, happy ones.🙂
Auston Habershaw 's IF WISHES WERE RETAIL is a deceptively humorous Young Adult novel with mature wisdom that peels away the chaos and clutter we create for ourselves that blind us from seeing the riches we already possess and mistaking what it is that we truly wish for.
Sometimes, an arrogant jinn can learn as much from an insolent 17-y.o. girl as show more she can from him.
From a Yiddishe perspective:
"If I am not for myself who is for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?"
--Talmud, Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14
"I don't think any one person can solve all our problems. Not even ourselves. It takes all of us working together--even the people we don't like--and that is the part I think will piss people off the most "
--Auston Habershaw, Afterward,
IF WISHES WERE RETAIL, p. 265.
😄 Love this, Auston.
Tikkun olam (To repair the world) takes a community -- even if it's a shopping mall community.
Just mind the gnomes. 🙂 show less
Auston Habershaw 's IF WISHES WERE RETAIL is a deceptively humorous Young Adult novel with mature wisdom that peels away the chaos and clutter we create for ourselves that blind us from seeing the riches we already possess and mistaking what it is that we truly wish for.
Sometimes, an arrogant jinn can learn as much from an insolent 17-y.o. girl as show more she can from him.
From a Yiddishe perspective:
"If I am not for myself who is for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?"
--Talmud, Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14
"I don't think any one person can solve all our problems. Not even ourselves. It takes all of us working together--even the people we don't like--and that is the part I think will piss people off the most "
--Auston Habershaw, Afterward,
IF WISHES WERE RETAIL, p. 265.
😄 Love this, Auston.
Tikkun olam (To repair the world) takes a community -- even if it's a shopping mall community.
Just mind the gnomes. 🙂 show less
I checked out this book from my local library.
This book is a hoot even as it contains depths. Alex is a teen desperate to get a job so she can save up money for college and escape her white trash family. She's hired by a jinn who is setting up a mall kiosk to sell wishes. Her new boss is ignorant about the ways of the 21st century. Hilarity ensues. I laughed out loud throughout, but near the end, some moments actually induced tears.
This book is a hoot even as it contains depths. Alex is a teen desperate to get a job so she can save up money for college and escape her white trash family. She's hired by a jinn who is setting up a mall kiosk to sell wishes. Her new boss is ignorant about the ways of the 21st century. Hilarity ensues. I laughed out loud throughout, but near the end, some moments actually induced tears.
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