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Black Orchid Night
A Tennessee orchid grower experiences another life through dreams set before World War II. Fiona’s story explores the boundaries between dreams, identity, and reality.
ISBN 9780977813070
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Fiona Mistry’s orchid-growing life intersects with lucid dreams of another identity before World War II. Family relationships, memory and racism form part of the novel’s two-time-period narrative. Sensitive themes include suicide and family trauma.
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Highlights the natural-world details and the weaving together of two time frames.
Deborah H. Yemm
Examines Fiona’s dreams, orchid symbolism, complicated family relationships and questions of identity.
Samfreene
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