Holy cow,
my friend wrote a book!
When my friend Sara Harkness Bovitz wrote a memoir about losing her husband to brain cancer and navigating life as a family of three, I had the privilege of helping give part of that story a visual identity.
To publish The Tricycle, Sara founded Pepem Press, named for the Mayan word for butterfly—a fitting symbol of transformation with a connection to her sons’ ancestry. I designed the logo to bring those ideas together, creating an identity that reflects both the name's personal roots and the transformation at the heart of the book.
A butterfly with a story.
Only the very best memoirists can bring a reader through hell and leave them thankful for the journey. Sara Bovitz is one such writer. Her gorgeous and sometimes very funny memoir, The Tricycle, will stay with me forever for its vivid, life-affirming, and poignant snapshots of family life as her clan went from four to three. It’s powerful not just because Sara writes so well, but because she has lived so well. I will be sharing copies of this book with friends new to grief for the rest of my life.
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— Lizzie Simon, author of Detour