{"id":50,"date":"2024-10-10T00:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867379\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:46:26","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The world treated her as collateral damage.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book_updated.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"901\" height=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book_updated.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0907887185542373;width:587px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book_updated.png 901w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book_updated-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book_updated-768x704.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She answered with music\u2014a premonition of rediscovering humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In a world growing numb to cruelty, The Original Human Beings tells the inspirational story of a girl named Never\u2014a Honduran orphan who escapes living in a Central American city dump and journeys north with a cello on her back. She&#8217;s fighting simply to stay alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She alone could protect her hilarious little brother, Homero. She searched for a hero\u2014but found a dreamy Nez Perce young man, the most athletic person she had ever seen, who helped her realize the hero was staring back at her in the mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It is a romance as scandalous as it is soulful, with no promise of happily ever after\u2014only truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She found refuge in Loco Lucy, the garbage dump&#8217;s foul-mouthed, delightfully deranged, vampire-dressing matriarch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She was hunted by General Alejandro Mendoza\u2014El Caudillo\u2014a ruthless crime lord who misbelieved he was her father and would burn down the world to control her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">And she was stalked by Alonzo Gomez, a seven-foot hitman with a French accent, a loaded pistol, and a soul darker than midnight\u2014until she made him believe in something more dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It is a high-concept saga infused with magical realism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It echoes with the mythic power of Le Morte d&#8217;Arthur\u2014as timeless a tale as we may see in our generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This is how we remember what truly matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This is how we broken walk out of the monster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/excerpt-2\/\">Read an Excerpt<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archwaypublishing.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/867716-the-original-human-beings\">Buy the Book<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2017 Colorado Independent Publishers Association EVVY Award<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Audiobook of the Year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2025 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Action &amp; Adventure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world treated her as collateral damage. 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