<i>Night Garden</i> is the story of a teenage girl in Appalachia confronting an explosive mix of addiction, grief, and sexuality. Shattered by a family tragedy, seventeen-year-old Marie Massey runs away from her affluent parents in a small Kentucky college town to live with an older man and his criminal family in a neighboring county. Her new life is both threatening and thrilling, a nine-month journey into a criminal underworld that takes her from youthful innocence to dark levels of human experience. Her encounter with the handsome, charismatic, thirty-year-old Bobo Owens sets in motion the central story of the novel. In a deceptively subdued, almost dreamlike voice, the author draws the reader into the fast-moving, suspenseful plot. The novel unfolds in a sequence of vivid scenes, each of which is its own immediate story, carried by the author's taut, measured prose.

Night Garden: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Mullins, Carrie

Genre Fiction

Old Cove Press

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St.Martin's Press

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