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Bloom

by Robbie Couch

Bloom

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Bloom

The sudden death of Fred leaves his husband, Morris, isolated from friends and family, while Fred’s daughter Sloan struggles to claim a life of her own as she prepares to marry. A houseplant named Jade, also declining in Morris’s care, becomes part of this family story. The three strands bring grief, caregiving and changing family ties into the same domestic space, with a plant’s effort to revive its owner adding a distinctly nonhuman presence to the relationships at its center. The premise connects the work of tending to a plant with the difficult work of re-engaging with life after loss.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in stories about grief and rebuilding family connections.
  • Readers who enjoy domestic fiction involving marriage, parenthood and stepfamily relationships.
  • Readers drawn to a story that gives a houseplant a role alongside human characters.

Themes

Grief and isolationFamily ties and stepfamily relationshipsMarriage and independenceCaregiving and renewalHuman connection with nature

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Book overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of If I See You Again Tomorrow comes a delightful and heartwarming novel about family, love, grief, and one precocious houseplant, that reminds us of the beauty of living a life in full Bloom.

Morris Warner is withering away. After the sudden death of his husband, Fred, he has shut himself off from the world. No more going to movies with friends, or swims in Lake Michigan, instead preferring the quiet loneliness of his history books and Jeopardy! episodes with only the cat to hear his answers.

Morris's stepdaughter, Sloan, feels like she has nowhere to grow. She's about to get married to the man of her dreams, if only her mother would let her actually plan her own wedding and trust her to build her own life after her father's death.

Jade is drying out. Literally. As a plant in Morris's home, she and her plant housemates have been slowly wasting away, leaf by falling leaf, since Fred's death and Morris's lack of care. She needs to come up with a plan to make her new owner come back to life, no matter what it takes.

New York Times bestselling author Robbie Couch's Bloom is a wondrous novel where family, love, kindness, and yes, Mother Nature, triumph.
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