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The Press
Olive & Boar Press LLC is an independent publisher of well-made books. The author’s voice comes first, and the details are done properly.
The Book
The Accidental Olive Farmer
Some people fall in love.
Javier fell all the way to Umbria.
Javier Martinez is 45, weary, and fluent in the language of terrible first dates. He is ready for a very long break from the apps.
Then comes one drink with a charming stranger, and a question that changes the course of his life. Before he knows it, Javier is far from Miami, in the middle of a harvest he is wildly unqualified for, surrounded by a family with plenty of opinions.
Funny, tender, and every bit as unhinged as modern dating, The Accidental Olive Farmer is a love story about the person you never saw coming, and the life that comes with him.
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The Author
Ernesto Crucet is a business analyst by day, which mostly means turning other people’s chaos into spreadsheets. The Accidental Olive Farmer is his first novel, and it is inspired by real events, though he politely declines to say which ones.
He lives between Miami and Umbria with his husband and a husky named Panda, who, yes, is the real one, and who is even needier in person than she is on the page. Each fall he works the olive harvest on the family farm, where he learned Italian out of necessity and is still learning to prune, mostly under supervision.
Contact
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