About this Event
From bestselling, award-winning author Nina LaCour comes a sweeping family saga, a story of forbidden love, and a profound meditation on self-discovery, perfect for readers of HELLO BEAUTIFUL and THE VANISHING HALF
New Orleans, 1944. Odette has always been one of the Honore sisters, glamorous and admired in their Creole community. But while Odette’s older sisters are content to be wives and mothers, Odette has always wanted something else. It is only with her beloved cousin, Delphine, that Odette can tell her secret: she is in love with a woman, and she longs to be an artist. Delphine has a secret lover, too, a white man. In the hidden garden they’ve discovered, Odette and Delphine can dream of futures full of passion and freedom.
But five years later, Odette's life is nothing like what she'd planned. She's a widowed mother, living in Los Angeles, and she and Delphine, who is passing as white, have spiraled away from each other. When Delphine reaches a breaking point, Odette must make a shattering choice to try to hold her family together.
Profound and expansive, a story of love and longing, art and motherhood, friendship and desire, Meet Me in the Garden is a decades-spanning tour de force, inspired by the author’s family and tracing the history of the Great Migration.
Join Nina LaCour for a signing and a book club–style discussion of MEET ME IN THE GARDEN.
Event venue & nearby stays
Cozy Calico Books, 199 Union Street, Occoquan, United States
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