Set in the magical gardens of Italy, where centuries of people have walked and dreamed, short stories that portray the strange, perilous, and unexpected moments that can change an entire future.Inventive and atmospheric, gardens are evocative places that combine wayward nature with intentional art, embodying our longings, fears, and hopes. Set in the historic and varied gardens of Italy, these stories catch ordinary people in extraordinary moments, when life seems charged with a peculiar energy. These special places act like portals in time, acquainting us with the otherworldly and with the most essential parts of the self. For the curious, they can be magical, bringing danger, but also the possibility of reinvigorating a stalled life.A failed academic on a garden tour wavers between the lure of her delusions and the promise of becoming someone new. A young mother faces a hard choice as she tries to survive in an Italian village on the eve of WWI. Facing an unwelcome moral test for a second time, a middle-aged woman knows what she does now will define her always. A disgruntled husband climbs on a boat and ends up somewhere entirely unexpected. Intimate, lyrical, compelling, ranging from the geometric gardens of the Medici to the cultivated wildernesses of the Italian Lakes, this collection illuminates ordinary people trying to create a meaningful path forward, highlighting those fraught and fragile moments when life can go on, or wildly veer off course, into a future that is uncharted, unexpected, and free.
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Arlene MacLeod was born in Massachusetts and grew up in New England and upstate New York. She earned her undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College, where she studied government and history, and she holds a Ph.D from Yale University in Political Science. She taught comparative politics and political theory at Bates College, where her courses combined her interests in literature, politics, and imagination. She lives with her husband near the coast in Maine, where she enjoys long walks, swimming in the ocean, and painting. She has always loved to read, especially books that transport the reader to a different time and place. She is the author of two novels, A Necessary Garden and Far Other Worlds, and with her son Morgan MacLeod, of Ruins, a collection of short stories and photo essays.
