Overview
From BESTSELLING, AWARD-WINNING author Nina LaCour comes a GORGEOUS FAMILY STORY about self-discovery and love in all forms, inspired by the author’s Creole roots
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.
Review
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.
Odette is one strong woman. She struggles with her own identity and her love for someone forbidden. But her strength to keep her family together never wavers. She gets stronger with every twist in her life. And believe me, she has a lot of issues thrown at her! I enjoyed how she took every struggle and met it head on!
This is a beautifully written story. I did feel it was a bit too long. But these characters and their situations stay with you! This is a story about life, love and family.
Angel Pean is the narrator of this wonderful story. She did an excellent job.
Need an expansive love story…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.
I received this novel from the publisher for a honest review.
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