Adelaide's Garden: A Novel

Complex and ambitious, shambolic and beguiling, Adelaide's Garden is a literary epic of bibliophiles and madmen, swindlers and dreamers. A labyrinth of tales, sprawling across the 19th century, from the lonely snowbound peaks of the Rockies to the decaying swamps of the Antebellum South, across the ruthless middle passage into the heart of Africa and the streets of Zanibar to the bustling cobblestones of Manhattan and the birth of Central Park, the novel winds through myth and the art of obsession with an unsettling collection of haunted Victorian souls struck by grief, slavery, and love.