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""In this delightful self-portrait, Martha Thompson proves herself the best kind of memoirist, self-aware enough to reveal the flaws of her younger subject without romanticizing her decisions. Romance real and imagined, international crime, deception-this is the kind of book you read on the subway and realize you've missed your stop.""-Dylan Brody, award-winning humorist, storyteller, playwright, filmmaker, and author of Relatively Painless ""Not everyone is as artistically gifted as Martha Thompson, and few lives are filled with as much adventure. But every reader will identify with the longing for love that runs throughout this page-turning memoir.""-Rev. Michael Kinnamon, PhD, author of A Rooftop in Jerusalem ""The Rug Dealer expands Martha Thompson's growing-and impressive-body of work, and it is her strongest memoir to date. In this coming-of-age tale she explores her naivete intermingled with duplicities, both of which get her into challenging circumstances. The theme of 'acting' helps Martha explain how she convinces herself to get involved in very sketchy and dangerous situations. The Turkish backdrop and the young artist's struggle to succeed make this a compelling read: It is not difficult to see this memoir being adapted as a colorful limited series or film.""-Steven Stiefel, coauthor of Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album and Tomorrow's Flight ""The Rug Dealer is Martha Thompson's page-turning, coming-of-age memoir of the elating, devastating power of first love (especially an exotic, foreign first love) to shape who we want to be, shifting our hopes toward something we never knew we wanted, casting a spell not easily broken. I could barely turn the pages fast enough to keep up with Martha's brave young self on the adventure of a lifetime as she finally becomes who she was meant to be.""-Sephe Haven (Isadora O'Boto), author of My Whorizontal Life: An Escort's Tale and A Someday Courtesan, solo show My Whorizontal Life: The Play, and podcast My Index to S$X

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Martha Thompson's first book, The Oxygen Mask Rule: How My Battle with Anorexia Taught Me to Survive, in 2012, was a finalist in the women's issues category of the 2012 International Book Awards and honorable mention in the biography/autobiography category of the 2012 Hollywood Book Festival and the 2012 New York Book Festival. Her second book, Giving Paws: Having a Service Dog for a Hidden Disability, earned an honorable mention in the dog category for the 2018 Animals, Animals, Animals Book Festival.Before she discovered her love for writing, Martha worked for twenty-five years as an actor. She studied at the Juilliard School of Drama, toured nationally with John Houseman's Acting Company, and worked in many theatres. She also appeared in national commercials and sitcoms. Martha writes and performs for Iron Skirts Productions, an all-female storytelling company in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, two dogs, and four quail.

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