Advance Praise:
"I love a passionate, vivid portrait of an American city -- RAZED gives readers just that in this novel that explores generations of family living through the many histories of a city in New York." Susan Straight, bestselling author of Mecca and In the Country of Women
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"A stirring portrait of great conflict and intimate triumphs, RAZED deftly tethers present day 1973 with an unshakeable and selectively blind and brutal past. RAZED is a reminder of an unjust world and the prayer of the next generation on the horizon." Rita Williams-Garcia, author of A Sitting in St. James
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"In this coming of age story, our narrator heroine, Lucretia Wilson, wrestles with complex issues. [She] is a character to love and hate and love again. RAZED is a compelling read, complex in its simplicity -- a brilliant feat for a writer. My hope is that we get to see this heroine again in a sequel." Romaine Washington, author of Purgatory has an Address
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My name is Thatcher Carter.
I come from a long line of grudge-keepers. My father stopped talking to his brother when I was a toddler, cutting off half our family. Then, my mother stopped talking to her sister for decades, further depleting our numbers. Since I was a child, I have read books as a way to understand these complex human decisions, every novel serving as a blueprint of what to embrace or avoid. My writing also centers around this mystery of human relationships.
For 25 years, I taught English at Riverside Community College in California. In 2025, my husband and I retired to Canada where we have found a wonderful community right along the banks of Lake Ontario near Kingston. I was lucky enough to find some local writers and helped create a writing group that we call Women Writing With Joy.
​​My first novel was published by Inlandia Books in 2025. You can read a draft excerpt here at Embark: A Literary Journal for Novelists.
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