Here’s a ‘novel’ bonus to eating well | Opinion

Nancy Colasurdo
4 min readAug 22, 2022

“Under autumn stars and Nabokov’s arabesques of light, she feels sauvage.” — Leesa Cross-Smith, from her novel “ Half-Blown Rose

Oh, that turn of phrase.

I recently met Vincent, named after Van Gogh, and entered her world via her starring role in a novel. She’s in Paris, feeling sauvage, escaping another life and, well, I’m about 78 pages from knowing how…

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Nancy Colasurdo

Activist Journalist, Opinion Writer, Author, Life Coach in Greater NYC area. Occasional guest columnist at NJ.com. Six-word bio: Zen chick with a Jersey edge.