Hot House Flower and the 9 Plants of Desire by Margot Berwin
From Amazon:
Literary/General Fiction
Pantheon (June 16, 2009)
288 pages
From Amazon:
Debut novelist Margot Berwin gives her fecund imagination free play in this lush and steamy summer read. Recently divorced and craving a blank slate, 30-something advertising copywriter Lila Nova moves into a new studio apartment “with absolutely no character” on Union Square. Lila, the sort of contemporary heroine given to amusing self-deflating wisecracks, is not, however, destined to inhabit a clean, white box for long. Within a few chapters, packed with romantic betrayal, plant lore and a couple of visits to a surreal Laundromat in the East Village, she’s on her way to “high adventure” in the Yucatan rain forest, where she’ll encounter ancient magic, poisonous creatures, a murderous exotic plant dealer, and, yes, true love. A wildly inventive novel as vivid and colorful as a jungle flower.I heard about this one a couple of weeks back - I tried to get an ARC of it but they gave me something else instead.
8 Comments:
Hi! :)
You have an award to pick up!
http://tjbook-list.blogspot.com/2009/06/awards-for-ar-lemonade-award.html
Have a great day,
Take care,
Sassy
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Oooh I was so excited to award you the award, I forgot to mention my Friday Find!
Here it is:
http://tjbook-list.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-friday-find-zombie-survial-guide.html
Sassy
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This sounds really good - I'll have to add it to my list. My Friday Finds can be found here.
This one sounds really good - I love finding debut authors! Great find!
Beautiful cover! Looks like fun :-)
Sounds like a great book, when I first saw the cover I was convinced that it was a book about flowers :)
I've been eying Hot House Flowers; like the cover.
This is the first I've heard of this book. Thanks!
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