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20<br />
October 2012<br />
Pantheon<br />
Rights available<br />
MARGOT BERWIN earned her<br />
MFA from the New School in 2005.<br />
She is the author of Hothouse<br />
Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire<br />
and her stories have appeared on<br />
Nerve.com, in the New York Press,<br />
and in the anthology <strong>The</strong> Future<br />
of Misbehavior. She worked in<br />
advertising for many years in New<br />
York.<br />
Aromata<br />
A Novel<br />
Margot Berwin<br />
Praise for Margot Berwin’s Hothouse Flower:<br />
“<strong>The</strong> great escapist novel of the summer. A shameless guilty<br />
pleasure of a romp.<br />
—Elle<br />
“Indiana meets Bridget Jones. Berwin delivers a bang-up<br />
debut packed with adventure, betrayal, love and, naturally,<br />
rare plants. <strong>The</strong>re’s magic, romance, greenery and greed<br />
as Lila and Armand venture through the Yucatan. It’s a fun<br />
page-turner—escapist and wonderfully entertaining.”<br />
—Publishers Weekly (starred)<br />
Margot Berwin, best-selling author of Hothouse Flower,<br />
returns with a new novel of magic, heat, imagination,<br />
and love.<br />
Aromata is the story of Eva, a young woman who is given a<br />
great gift by her grandmother—a scent. Her grandmother<br />
was an aromata, a scent-maker who could design all sorts<br />
of powerful perfumes. Eva soon discovers that her scent has<br />
made her absolutely irresistible—to men, to women, even to<br />
the cats who stay up all night crying to be near her. At first<br />
this new gift is enthralling, as Eva realizes that Gabriel, the<br />
boy she meets in town, is suddenly interested in her. Gabriel<br />
brings Eva with him to New Orleans where he is in medical<br />
school and they make a home together, shutting the windows<br />
to keep her smell inside. But Gabriel is busy with school, and<br />
with only the strange neighbor boy for company, Eva realizes<br />
how lonely this gift can make her. So when Eva meets Michael,<br />
a painter unimpressed with her, she is forced to decide what<br />
love really means, who loves her for her scent, and who loves<br />
her for herself.<br />
From the pine forests and stone houses of upstate New York<br />
to the vine-covered balconies and dank barrooms of New<br />
Orleans, Aromata is a gorgeously atmospheric, evocative story<br />
of romance, voodoo magic, lust, and art.
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