Walker, GillianChantler, AshleyBlair, Peter2024-09-232024-09-232024-04-24Walker, G. (2024). The World at the End of the Garden: A Novella-in-Flash [Kindle Edition]. Flash: The International Short-Short Story Press.9780993182266http://hdl.handle.net/10034/629034This book is not available on ChesterRep.An English textile artist accompanies her husband to live in Tucson, Arizona for a year. Her world shrinks to a gated community of strangers and the view of the arroyo at the bottom of the garden. Escaping from a regime of fertility treatments and miscarriages, she learns to tolerate the heat and the snakes. With the help of Samuel, a mysterious boy who lives across the arroyo, she explores the landscape, learns its history and falls in love with Tucson’s flowers and seasonal rains. As the year passes, she pioneers a new direction for her art and, finally, accepts that she will never be a mother. The World at the End of the Garden is a novella-in-flash about the discovery of self, the meaning of home, and the place of humans on the planet.Flash fictionMicro fictionNovella-in-flashBook2024-09-20