as our new release of the week: The Night Garden. By Pamela Holm (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, May 2005) This is a quirky story of love, passion, and pest control set against the changing seasons of San Francisco. The heroine, a single mother who exterminates bugs by day and illustrates them by night, and her troubled tenant struggle to find themselves as they work together to transform a tangled backyard garden into a sanctuary. “Pamela Holm loves San Francisco, and she knows the city,” writes Gabriel Welsch at Small Spiral Notebook. “More than anything else, one leaves her first novel, The Night Garden, with the clear sense of her knowledge of and affection for the city she and her characters call home. The novel deals with lust and its destructive consequences, the minute attentions of curious people, art, the effect of geography, and more, told in direct prose and at such a good clip that it is a quick and generally satisfying read.”

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