“I inadvertently became interested in tropical plants because that’s what the man at the Union Square Green Market sold me.

I used to believe that sentence, but now I know better. Now I know that it was meant to be.

Here’s how it happened.”

First lines of Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire: A Novel by Margot Berwin
Out this month from Pantheon.

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