Author Reading - Margot Berwin of HOTHOUSE FLOWER AND THE NINE PLANTS OF DESIRE June 23, 2009

Tonight attend a free reading with Margot Berwin, the author of HOTHOUSE FLOWER AND THE 9 PLANTS OF DESIRE(synopsis below)! This book is looking to be the hot book of the summer and the movie rights to this book have already been bought by Julia Roberts AND she plans to star in the movie!
www.hothouseflowerbook.com
Margot Berwin’s HOTHOUSE FLOWER AND THE NINE PLANTS OF DESIRE (Pantheon Books/June 16, 2009/$24.00) is the perfect summer read. This debut novel about plant magic, spiritual discovery abroad, and romantic fever in the jungles of Mexico, and at a laundromat and green market in lower Manhattan, is best described as Eat, Pray, Love meets The Orchid Thief.

Shortly after her divorce, advertising executive Lila Nova purchases her first plant, a bird of paradise, at Union Square’s greenmarket. The seller is David Exley, a rugged “countrysexual” who promises a paradise of his own in addition to the plant. Lila is immediately intrigued, but when David introduces her to the nine plants of desire, and after she meets Armand, who claims to own the nine plants, she finds herself on an adventure she never imagined taking. In the Yucatán, alone, hefting a backpack full of travel guides and expensive shampoo, Lila learns more than she ever wanted to know about the rain forest—and about herself.
Plant mythology, shamans and charlatans, mysterious spirit animals, obsessed orchid lovers, large scorpions, and handsome Huichols—they’re all here in this rollicking tale of mystery, adventure, and heat.

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