Michel Stone
Book Your Lunch
Monday 03/26/201212:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Lazy Goat, Greenville
Please join Michel Stone for the Book Your Lunch event hosted by Fiction Addiction at the Lazy Goat restaurant in Greenville, 170 River Place, 29601. Michel's new book is The Iguana Tree.
For reservations and information, please call 864-675-0540.
The Iguana Tree is a spring "Okra Pick" from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.To Lilia, her main character, Puerto Isadore is the home of her ancestors, a place of fragrant blossoms and tangy ocean air. To her husband, Héctor, the village is a prison keeping them from a better life, so he makes the terrifying journey across the border into the United States. While Héctor makes a new life in South Carolina and begins saving money to bring Lilia and their infant daughter across the border, Lilia’s world unravels. The ties binding her to Puerto Isadore are cut one by one, and she can think only of joining her husband. When an old friend offers to help, Lilia jumps at the chance to cross the border as well. Her harrowing journey and its repercussions test her relationship with Héctor, his relationship with his new friends, and their relationship with their American employers.
As Michel Stone weaves her tale of hope and human dignity, of sorrow and suffering, we see not only the devastating consequences of Lilia’s and Héctor’s decisions, but the consequences of decisions we have made as a society and as a nation. With its themes of loss, betrayal, and redemption, The Iguana Tree has the resonance of myth.
