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A Better Place: A Memoir of Peace in the Face of Tragedy
A Better Place: A Memoir of Peace in the Face of Tragedy
A Better Place: A Memoir of Peace in the Face of Tragedy
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Pati Navalta Poblete's world is shattered when her 23-year-old son, Robby, is violently killed. She blames God, gun violence and the town where he was born and died, even herself. Two years later, she shares how Robby’s death was transformative for her and many others -- including their family and friends, and even the first journalist on the scene.

The Bay Area native takes the reader on a raw, heartbreaking journey from the scene of the crime, to a Buddhist monastery in Northern California, to Asia where she travels for work, to Robby’s favorite beach in Hawaii to mark the first anniversary of his death -- everywhere she goes trying to make sense of what has happened. Along the way, she offers glimpses into her and Robby’s lives, underscoring what makes his loss so tragic and why every loss such as his matters.
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Release dateMay 22, 2018
ISBN9781946706003
A Better Place: A Memoir of Peace in the Face of Tragedy
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Pati Navalta Poblete

Pati Navalta Poblete is a longtime San Francisco Bay Area journalist, previously serving as Editorial Writer and Columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, where she was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her editorial series on the need for foster care reform in California. She later worked as the Asia Regional Director for an international organization that works with national governments and intergovernmental agencies on shaping sustainability policies. She is the author of "The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents of America" (2006, Heyday Books). Today Pati is Executive Director of the Robby Poblete Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Through its gun buyback program, the foundation takes unwanted and potentially dangerous guns out of circulation and works with artists to transform them into pieces of art used to raise awareness about gun violence. The foundation also provides vocational programs to individuals and communities affected by violent crime. She lives in Fairfield, CA.

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