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Aditya BidicarGraphic Novels · Magical Realism
The Cutting Garden
Synopsis
On a quiet street in 1930s New Orleans, a florist agrees to spend the night building a funeral arrangement for an eleven-year-old girl named Adeil, who pays for each flower with a piece of a story.
As the bouquet grows, so does the tale: a chance meeting with a disillusioned jazz singer, a crumbling family home, a life lived on the fringes of an imperfect world. Told in watercolor, this original graphic novel from Eisner-winning writer Darcy Van Poelgeest and artist Erin Connally is a quiet meditation on companionship, family, and sacrifice.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
Genres
Characters
AdeilProtagonist
A precocious eleven-year-old girl who trades a florist fragments of a strange, unfolding story in exchange for a funeral bouquet.
The floristProtagonist
Works through the night constructing a funeral arrangement, listening as Adeil's story unfolds one flower at a time.
