The Red Garden

From the author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Rules of Magic comes a transfixing glimpse into a small American town where a mysterious,magical garden holds the truth behind three hundred years of passiondark secretsloyaltyand redemption. ΓÇ£[A] dreamyfabulist series of connected stories . . . [These] taleswith their tightsoft focus on Americacast their own spell.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe Washington Post The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of BlackwellMassachusettscapturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. From the town’s foundera brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bearsto the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for companythe characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbora woman who meets a fiercely human historical charactera poet who falls in love with a blind mana mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyoneΓÇÖs life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can growand where the truth can be found by those who dare to look. Beautifully crafted and shimmering with magicThe Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving.