![]() ![]() Well-written, if not a bit jarring from past to present, The Butterfly Garden kept me reading despite the often too large cast (many of the butterflies referred to in passing to support the staggering number of women). A man of wealth and skill, the Gardener has artfully created a world where these women want for little other than freedom, all under his wife’s nose. The novel deals well in environmental detail, in friendship, in the range of emotions one would expect from a diverse cast of hostages, but feels implausible even with the Gardener’s unlimited resources. ![]() Told largely in retrospect, this is a novel about women bonding to overcome their shared dire circumstances. This is the scenario for twenty-odd women kidnapped as teenagers and murdered upon their twenty-first birthdays (after which a new butterfly is often added to the group). Women held prisoner in an elaborate garden, marked by their captor with tattooed butterfly wings on their backs, enrobed in resin upon their death, and displayed out of what the Gardener believes is love. ![]()
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