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"[Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." NPR "Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction. Beneath their clarity are layers of cultural and literary references, profound questions about loyalty, race, the possibility of social progress, and the nature of truth . . . to create something entirely newan American fable of ideas." Shelf Awareness "The Wreckage...

In Amherst, Massachusetts, in spring, 1834, young Emily Dickinson uses scraps of paper and a pencil nub to write a poem, before she even knows her ABCs, and shares it with her household and garden. Includes author's note about Dickinson's life and work.

"Avid gardener and poet Emily Dickinson collected 424 pressed flower specimens and wrote nearly 1800 poems in her lifetime, with nature and plants inspiring many of her beloved works. Lines and couplets from Dickinsons poems paired with Carme Lemniscates gorgeous illustrations bring In Emilys Garden to life, letting toddlers take a stroll in Emilys garden of verses. See the flowers, birds, butterflies, and bees through Emilys eyes, and foster a love...

Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.