Alfredo

Author, Screenwriter, Bar Owner, Corgi Lover.

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Interested in Caregiving? Sandwich Generation Woes? Juicy Family Secrets? Punk Rock? Infidelity? Clonazepam? Architecture?

Then I've got two stocking stuffers for you.

Spin Cycle

https://t.co/V0ZePqvFRR

180 Days

https://t.co/S3dVvQpqsx

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Sometimes the best way to deal with reality is fiction. Honored that Spin Cycle was awarded in two categories - fiction and non-fiction - by the National Indie Excellence Awards. New Fiction and Caregiving. Winner and Finalist.

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Episode 318 (Please Subscribe) -

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton (@Lanceaslatton) were honored to welcome Alfredo Botello Author of Spin Cycle Notes from a Reluctant Caregiver as guest to the show.

https://t.co/Z3ayUqlZNV

About Alfredo Botello (@alfredobotello) :

Alfredo Botello is a novelist and screenwriter who has worked on projects ranging from the indie Sundance Global Short La Revolucion De Iguodala to the studio tent pole Fast and Furious 9. His debut novel, 180 Days, has garnered multiple literary awards.

He is a Fulbright Fellow in architecture and a Nicholl Fellow in screenwriting. In addition to screenplays and the novels, he contributed a chapter to the Amazon bestseller Wellness Through Words, and has written for The San Francisco Examiner Magazine, Metropolis, Diablo, Surface, The Utne Reader, Style, The East Bay Express, and The Monthly.

Botello co-owns a cocktail bar in downtown Oakland, Little Bird Bar, and at home dotes on his two Corgis, George and Dotty.

About Spin Cycle Notes from a Reluctant Caregiver:

High school math teacher Ezra Pavic is having a hard time. His wife left him, his son barely tolerates him, and now he’s being blindsided by something he never saw coming: the emotional spin cycle of parenting a parent. His mother Irene has dementia, and it’s exhausting. Caring for her is a constant source of frustration, resentment, and guilt. Lots of guilt.

Overwhelmed by it all, Ezra opens a strip-mall school to help others—and himself—become better caregivers. As he learns to handle the personalities of his nine misfit students, Ezra must also navigate the complex feelings he has toward his mother. It doesn’t help that she adores his do-nothing slacker brother.

But Ezra hasn’t told his students that he also has an agenda beyond becoming a more compassionate caregiver. And, it turns out, so does one of his students. Ezra confides the entire tale to his childhood friend Danny as he attempts to sort it all out and find room in his heart again for compassion and love.

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Alfredo Botello Author of Spin Cycle Notes from a Reluctant Caregiver https://t.co/Pgt4SicEwu via @YouTube

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@andreamarraok Lovely pic. It’s been a while. Im not an X much anymore. Hope you’re well!

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Not Flavor Flav’s clock, but I’ll take it. Thanks to the National Indie Excellence Awards for naming “180 Days” Best Contemporary Novel.

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Thank you to the Independent Book Review for the kind words.

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Happy 84th mom! ❤️

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Art!

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Just walking past this gave me a hangover.

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I think “brain zoomies” sounds so much nicer than “anxiety.”

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Thanks to the New York Weekly for their great review of 180 Days.
Book available at https://t.co/QueqrbsYaj

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How brother and sister corgis - Dotty and George - used to sleep together when they were babies. 🥹🥰🥹

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Initiation Well. Sintra, Portugal.

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So many old Ruby Room employees showed up last night. My heart was full.

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AUDIO BOOK version out now too. Thanks to Booker Prize nominated author Howard Chesley for his kind words.
https://t.co/laxEz6hrGS

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Happy merry everything from Radio Bar Oakland.

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There’s a reason people keep posting sunset pictures…