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Why I Wrote a Novel About a Unique Apple: Excerpt

Harvesting the Sky cover

During these last few weeks, I shared two posts about the origins of and botany in my novel about a unique apple, Harvesting the Sky. The first article covered how I merged issues of an emotional past with plants and the second, my inability to eat apples and subsequent fascination with them. This week I’m posting the final segment of this series with an excerpt from the book’s first chapter. It takes place in Kazakhstan while the rest of the novel, […]

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Why I Wrote a Novel About a Unique Apple: Origins

Apple and Book, Why I Wrote a Novel About a Unique Apple: Origins, Harvesting the Sky, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2018/06/21/apple-novel-origins #novel #books #fiction #thriller #crimefiction #Paris #writing #setting #plants #apple

When I look back on the origins of Harvesting the Sky, my novel about a unique apple, I can’t believe how long it took me to discover something that was an obvious fit. But at the time, I couldn’t see it. For years, I resisted the idea of writing fiction about plants. By day, I worked as a gardener, designing and maintaining clients’ gardens and at night, I wrote gardening articles for fun. During graduate school at Goddard College, I’d […]

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