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Her mother, Nan, is sure that the burden of those secrets would be too much, and that's why she never told anyone the truth, not even Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere's a lot that Nan's kept quiet over the years, especially those times with Mavis and Ruthie?times that were dark and full of guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut some secrets have a power all their own, and Nan realizes she needs Mavis and Ruthie now more than ever. When the three meet again in Nan's garden, their reunion has spellbinding effects that none of them could have imagined, least of all Bay...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn enchanting fantasy, fans of Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, will be captivated by Mary Rickert, the World Fantasy and Crawford Award-winning author.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat reviewers are saying about The Memory Garden:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"atmospheric, eerie, and utterly beautiful...\" -- Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Someone Else's Love Story\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A totally CHARMING, totally ENGAGING story told by Rickert, a magus of the first order. MAGIC IN EVERY LINE.\" -- Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Memory Garden is one of the most intense fantasy books I've read in years...reminds me a bit of [Terry] Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books, but also of some of my favorite literary novels about misfits who invent themselves as they go along. I've seldom read a book that's as gentle, and yet as powerful, as The Memory Garden.\" -- io9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... a blend of poetical language and dark suspense... 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Faced with the uncanny and the impossible, Rickert s protagonists are as painfully, shockingly, complexly human as the readers who will encounter them. Mothers, daughters, witches, artists, strangers, winged babies, and others grapple with deception, loss, and moments of extraordinary joy. \u003cbr\u003ePraise for Mary Rickert's books: \u003cbr\u003eThe Memory Garden is a lovely book of women, friendship, sadness and healing, and it is genuinely uplifting. Like the garden of its title, this is a book to take in slowly, to spend time in, to wander through; you'll likely find your-selves the better for it. NPR \u003cbr\u003eThis is a novel haunted by mortalitywith people who died young, with people now old and dying, with ghosts. But it is often a joyful novel, a novel of life, forgiveness and good meals with friends and strangers.Los Angeles Review of Books \u003cbr\u003eI've seldom read a book as gentle, and yet as powerful. io9.com \u003cbr\u003eRickert writes with a blend of poetical language and dark suspense.The Washington Post \u003cbr\u003eA poet of the extremes housed within the human heart.Locus \u003cbr\u003eMary Rickert has long been an undiscovered master of the fantastic. Her first collection, Map of Dreams,  received the Crawford and World Fantasy awards, and stories from this collection of new and selected work have received the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards. She has worked as kindergarten teacher, barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and in the personnel de-partment of Sequoia National Park where she spent her time off hiking the wilderness. She is the author of two collections and the novel The Memory Garden and she has received the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards. 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