Lupe Farkas

POWERED BY COKE ZERO, TOO MANY OPEN TABS & POOR LIFE-WORK BOUNDARIES ✦ BOOKS WRITTEN ✦ BOOKS REVIEWED ✦ ADAPTATIONS JUDGED ✦ EMOTIONAL DAMAGE CAREFULLY DOCUMENTED ✦ WELCOME TO THE BEAUTIFUL CHAOS

The Author’s Bookshelf

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Before October Ends · Book One of The Tuscan Trilogy

One story. Three languages. Choose your edition.

Enter Elisabetta Rossi’s ninety-day promise in English, Italian or Portuguese. Each cover opens a complete book page written in the language you choose.

English · Kindle & Paperback

Before October Ends

A woman who did everything right gives herself ninety days to discover whether another life is possible.

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Italiano · Kindle & Copertina flessibile

Prima che ottobre finisca

Una donna che ha fatto tutto nel modo giusto si concede novanta giorni per scoprire se un’altra vita è possibile.

Leggi in italiano →

Português · Kindle

Antes que outubro termine

Uma mulher que fez tudo certo se concede noventa dias para descobrir se outra vida é possível.

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Readers Are Talking

What readers are saying about Before October Ends.

Selected five-star reviews originally published on Goodreads. The chickens remain underrepresented.

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This book left a truly deep impression on me. It made me feel everything, from soft and tender moments to emotions that completely hit me.

Five-Star Reader Review · Goodreads

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The story is engaging and keeps you hooked with that “before it’s too late” feeling. The characters feel real and relatable.

Five-Star Reader Review · Goodreads

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My only criticism? The chickens deserved more space. They could have been the main characters. #JusticeForTheChickens

Five-Star Reader Review · Goodreads

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It brings several genres together brilliantly. The diary format keeps you hooked through every chapter.

Five-Star ARC Review · Goodreads

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An excellent book with an engaging plot, strong characters and a wonderful writing style.

Five-Star Reader Review · Goodreads

Beyond the Bookshelf

Ideas, conversations & beautiful chaos

Enter the Beautiful Chaos

There is more here than one shelf can hold.

Follow the experiments behind the writing, or listen to honest conversations with people who refuse to make their lives look perfectly tidy.

Experiments · Essays · Author Life

The Chaos Lab

The place where unfinished ideas, strange questions, creative experiments and the beautifully unpolished reality of building an author life are allowed to misbehave.

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The Podcast · With Lupe Farkas

Imperfect Rebel

Anti-perfect, unfiltered and unapologetic conversations about books, identity, reinvention, creativity and the lives people build when they stop performing perfection.

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Meet the Author

Lupe Farkas writes the private stories people tell themselves to survive.

Lupe Farkas is an Italo-Brazilian author of psychological literary fiction about identity, memory, grief, belonging and complicated women standing at the edge of another possible life.

Around the novels lives a wider literary world of honest book reviews, creative experiments, journals and unfiltered conversations through the Imperfect Rebel podcast.

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