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For readers of
 
Also a Poet, Orwell’s Roses
, and
 
My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers
—as well as the legions of Virginia Woolf fanatics—the acclaimed poet and author of
 
The Crying Book 
crafts a deeply moving, immersive, and lyrical hybrid memoir about her mother, Woolf, and the transformative power of writing.
When Heather Christle realizes that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertwine each of their stories, in search of a more hopeful narrative and a future she can live with.
On a recent visit to London's Kew Gardens, Christle’s mother revealed details of a painful story from her past that took place there, under circumstances that strangely paralleled Heather's own sexual assault during a visit to London as a teenager.
Her private, British mother’s revelation—a rare burst of vulnerability in their strained relationship—propels Christle down a deep and destabilizing rabbit hole of investigation, as she both reads and wanders the streets of her mother's past, peeling back the layers of family mythologies, England’s sanctioned historical narratives, and her own buried memories. Over the course of several trips to London, with and without her mother, she visits her family's "birthday hill" in Kew Gardens, the now-public homes of the Bloomsbury set, the archives of the British Library, and the backyard garden where Woolf wrote her final sentence. All the while, she finds that Woolf and her writings not only constantly seem to connect and overlap with her mother’s story, but also that the author becomes a kind of vital intermediary: a sometimes confidante, sometimes mentor, sometimes distancing lens through which Christle can safely observe her mother and their experiences.
Wide-ranging and prismatic, the fruit of an insatiably curious, delightfully brilliant mind, 
In the Rhododendrons
 is part memoir, part biography of Virginia Woolf, part reckoning with the things we cannot change and the ways we can completely transform, if we dare. This utterly original book will stir readers into new ways of seeing their own lives.
Heather Christle
 is the author of 
The Crying Book
 
(Catapult), a 
New York Times
 Editor’s Choice, Indie Next selection, and national bestseller that was translated into eight languages, awarded the Georgia Book Award for memoir, and adapted for radio by the BBC. An associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, Christle is also the author of four poetry collections including 
The Trees The Trees
, which won the Believer Book Award and was adapted into a ballet by the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Her writing has been published in 
The Believer, Elle, Granta, London Review of Books,
 
and 
The New Yorker
, and she was recently the recipient of a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in nonfiction.
Kimberly Belflower
 is a playwright and educator originally from a small town in Appalachian Georgia. Plays include: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN (2025 Broadway, 2024 Huntington Theatre, 2022 Studio Theatre, 2019 Kilroys List, published by Dramatists/Broadway Licensing, Farm Theatre College Collaboration Project); LOST GIRL (2018 Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award, published by Sam French/Concord Theatricals); SAINT PIGTAIL (commissioned and developed by Studio Theatre). Kimberly has worked with South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Alliance Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, among others. Kimberly was also a narrative lead at Meow Wolf, where she wrote MARIN’S DREAMS, a short film with original music by Beach House. She proudly holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and teaches playwriting at Emory University in Atlanta.
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