The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
A Novel
Rita Leganski, 2013
Love can be enchanting, but then again, it can be disenchanting too. This book tells of women and the wrong sorts of men they fall for. One of its characters, a grieving mother, grows “belladonna, thorn apple, hemlock, black nightshade ... everything poisonous” in her garden. As with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it’s told in reverse until it comes to 12-year-old Lucy Green in 1952, a tragic accident, and a forty-year search for the angel she pins her hopes on.
