Margot Berwin





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Margot Berwin

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Margot Berwin earned her MFA from the New School in 2005. Her stories have appeared on Nerve.com, in the New York Press, and in the anthology The Future of Misbehavior. She worked in advertising for many years and lives in New York City.


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Average rating: 3.31 · 744 ratings · 264 reviews · 2 distinct works
Hothouse Flower and the Nin...
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions
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date: June 30, 2010 07:00AM
location: Bar on A, 170 Avenue A @ 11th street, New York, NY, The United States
description: Hothouse Flower paperback launch. Q&A and cocktails with me (Margot Berwin). Please come if you're in town! I'll be discussing the book, the book tour, the industry. I'm up for answering questions on pretty much anything you want to know-book related of course!
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“Plants need roots because they can't move on their own. Their roots serve them well, stopping them from getting blown all over the place by the wind. But we humans can move around at will, and our roots hold us in place unnecessarily. Usually in a place we don't want to be. Then, when we try to move, we rip our roots, and it hurts, so we end up staying right where we are.”
Margot Berwin, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire

“What a strange place, I thought. If I look up everything is so clear and beautiful, and if I look down, everything is so dangerous and ugly. I wished I could keep my head in the sky, but the scorpions brought me back to reality. Or was the sky the reality?”
Margot Berwin, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire

“The model stripped down naked and stood with her arms out to her sides while genderless cohorts sprayed her body with large silver canisters of foundation. They wore masks over there faces and sprayed her from head to toe like they were putting out a fire. They airbrushed her into a mono-toned six-foot-two column of a human being with no visible veins, nipples, nails, lips, or eyelashes. When every single thing that was real about the model was gone, the make up artist fug through a suite case of brushes and plowed through hundreds of tubes of flesh colored colors and began to draw human features onto her face. At the same time, the hair stylist meticulously sewed with a needle and thread strand after strand of long blond hairs onto her thin light brown locks, creating a thick full mane of shimmering gold. The model had brought her own chef, who cooked her spinach soup from scratch. The soup was fed to her by one of her lackeys, who existed solely for this purpose. The blond boy stood in front of her, blowing on the soup and then feeding it to her from a small silver child's spoon, just big enough to fit between her lips. the model's mouth was barely open, maybe a quarter of an inch wide, so that she would not crack the flesh colored paint.”
Margot Berwin, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire

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Alison Hi Margot!
I read Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire a few weeks ago and LOVED it! I recently started reading for pleasure and read several novels this summer. However, Hothouse Flower was my favorite book I've read so far...what a perfect mix of magical realism, intrigue, desire (of course), romance, adventure, and suspense! I can't wait for your 2nd book to come out. :)
~*Alison*~


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