Listed on Hasty Book LIst's 'Most Anticipated Contemporary Fiction of 2024' Bella Fontaine is on her own. Fresh out of college and with the winnings from her first international photography competition, she decides to leave Los Angeles to forge a new life in New York City. But will she be able to overcome the trauma of her childhood and her break from home to make it as a successful artist and professional photographer in a new city? Or will her secrets catch up with her ,and keep her from developing the relationships she needs to make her dreams come true? We meet young Bella just after her tenth birthday, and her grandmothers, Olivette and Miriam, each with a beautiful, mature garden as different from each other as the two gardeners who tend them. As Bella's homelife begins to unravel, she relies on her grandmother's gardens as her refuge for stability and belonging. But when Miriam moves in with Olivette in search of healing, the grandmothers bond in a way that makes Bella feel excluded. What happens next sends Bella out into the world before she is ready. The Grandest Garden is a poignant coming-of-age story about the ties that bind us to our people and how to survive when they break.
- ISBN10 1684632366
- ISBN13 9781684632367
- Publish Date 4 June 2024
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SparkPress
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English