MOSTLY WONDERFUL

A Memoir of Unlikely Friendship
in the Aftermath of Murder

Mostly Wonderful spans the last two years of Jennifer’s career as a public defender in San Francisco. At its core it’s her personal journey of awakening to a life with room for softness and connection, one that freed her from the deeply divided world of the justice system where she played by the rules for decades, hiding out with a buried heart.

The book also offers a deep dive into the entangled mental health and criminal legal systems through a singular murder case that forever changed her life. Cleaved her world into two exquisitely simple pieces: Before and After.  

Mostly Wonderful is a love story. 
Not the romantic kind, but the transformational kind.

  • Vancouver 1958

  • Mexico City 1960s

  • San Francisco 1970s

  • Ella Fitzgerald 1953

  • Cannes 1960s

  • Dorothy Dandridge 1953

  • Santa Monica 1950s