Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire by Margot Berwin
Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire by Margot Berwin, graduate, the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School
Knopf/Vintage, 2007
Barnesandnoble.com: Lila Nova is a thirty-two year-old advertising copywriter who lives alone in a plain white box of an apartment. Recovering from a heartbreaking divorce, Lila’s mantra is simple: no pets, no plants, no people, no problems. But when Lila meets David Exley, a ruggedly handsome plant-seller, her lonely life blossoms into something far more colorful.
From the cold, harsh streets of Manhattan to the verdant jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula, Hothouse Flower is the story of a woman who must travel beyond the boundaries of sense and comfort to find what she truly wants.