A Garden of Demons: A Novel

by Edward Hower

Living in a jungle nature sanctuary in Sri Lanka, eleven-year-old Lila and her parents face danger as they are threatened by terrorists.

220 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Edward Hower has published nine novels, two books of stories, and, most recently, What Can You Do: Personal Essays and Travel Writing. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Smithsonian, American Scholar, and elsewhere. He has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two Fulbright grants to India.

After Hower graduated from Cornell University in 1963, he lived in East Africa for three years, where he taught high school, sang in local nightclubs, and wrote his first novel, The New Life Hotel. Later, he earned a masters degree in Anthropology from the University of California, doing field work among Los Angeles street gangs.

More recently, he has taught at several American universities and has given writing workshops in Tobago, Greece, Sri Lanka, Britain, Nepal, and Key West, Florida. Many of these classes he has co-taught with his wife, the novelist the late Alison Lurie. He has lived in Ithaca, New York since 1975, and has two grown children, Dan and Lana.

abridged bio from Mr Hower's web page

Reviews

[Jessica]

Interesting situation, but the characters were flat and the writing was uninspired...and uninspiring.