The Wonder Garden
by Lauren Acampora
Buy on AmazonIn a series of interconnected short stories, the residents of Old Cranbury, Connecticut face unseen battles and creeping truths, dreaming the massive dreams that each person holds close-- and that hold them close to each other.
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"These linked short stories probe the hidden lives of a small Connecticut town. The Wonder Garden’s protagonists may seem like your ordinary upper-class New England suburbanites, but lurking underneath are stories both grotesque and tragic: a man who becomes obsessed with touching a human brain; a woman who has stopped her car at a stop sign and can’t bring herself to start it again; an artist who covers a client’s home in giant insects. A weird and compelling collection."
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