Joanna loves to garden and quickly becomes obsessed with the adorable little houses that comprise the Portland cityscape. Joanna is an English teacher with no aspirations to be a writer Malcolm is a contractor/carpenter who is good with his hands, apparently in more ways than one. Against a rainy backdrop and an extremely accurate depiction of America’s weirdest city, Joanna and Malcolm fall in love, fall out of love, hang out, break up, sleep together, sleep around, opt for radio silence, and then finally…well, I won’t spoil it for you. So with luck, the two will cancel each other out.īROKEN HOMES AND GARDENS, Kelley’s debut novel, is the story of Joanna and Malcolm’s unconventional (but very recognizable) relationship in modern-day Portland. That said, I also have an intrinsic bias away from the book’s stated genre: lit fic with a romance slant. Full disclosure: the book was published by my mom’s company, Blank Slate Press, so I might have a slight bias. I have decided to spend this time devouring books I’ve meant to read for years, and BROKEN HOMES AND GARDENS, by Rebecca Kelley, is one of them. With harvest season long over, my recovery period complete, and the third book in the Seeds trilogy finally finished, I have at last had some time to come up for a breather and do some reading. After a few months of not reading much, you could say I’m going on a bit of a bender.
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