If you enjoyed Anne Tyler's "Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant," and Terry Kay's "To Dance With The White Dog," you will love "Rose's Garden," Carrie Brown's debut novel.
"It was the sound of the rain that woke Conrad, who had been asleep in his easy chair by the French doors.
"The room was dark, warm, close, the seasonal air of slow twilights draining quietly over fields of tall grass heavy with seed. Conrad felt the weight of the water, the weight of the mountains, the weight of the clouds themselves, pressing close. He looked out the window into the dark rain and then, turning slowly, crossed the soft carpet, a meadow of wildflowers sewn within a border of flaming
eunonymus, each leaf stitched by his wife Rose, in the days when her hands had been young and strong and clever."
"Rose's Garden" conveys the story of the love between a woman, whose garden extended past the boundaries of property and time, and a man, who learned the precious lesson of reaching out. A lesson Rose tried all her life to teach him.
Brown's lyrical prose entrances with its startling originality. "Rose's Garden" is a must read.
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(Jones is a published writer & literary critic)
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