A.J. Sidran­sky writes about ordi­nary peo­ple faced with extra­or­di­nary cir­cum­stances. His most recent nov­el, Inci­dent at San Miguel, won four inde­pen­dent press awards for his­tor­i­cal fic­tion. Plums, Papri­ka & Ghosts, is his first for­ay into non-fic­tion. A very per­son­al mem­oir, it intro­duces Sidran­sky, his fam­i­ly and his his­to­ry, the basis for much of his work to his readers.