The Orchid Stories - Kenward Elmslie Gertrude Stein 18th and 19th-century colonists in

18th and 19th-century colonists in Northeastern America—notably the largely unknown career of entomologist Margaretta Morris—and the apocalyptic premonitions of the indigenous Wampanoag

is not a novel in the traditional sense but is nonetheless filled with characters

farmers and others to become more fungal in their ways of working and being

Label - Black Truffle

The Orchid Stories - Kenward Elmslie Gertrude Stein 18th and 19th-century colonists inLike the orchids that provide their leitmotif, these interwoven stories by Kenward Elmslie are exquisite, exotic, and oneiric, as if they had been written in another world. Although each of The Orchid Stories stands alone, their characters and moods recur frequently, in a swirl of visual echoes and the bewildering clarity of a dream. Even the characters themselves, with their shifting names and genders, have an illusive reality that enhances the