A no-holds-barred portrait of the underbelly of the Colombian drug trade and a woman on death row who is counting down the days to her execution and watching as, one by one, her fellow inmates are executed. How did she get here? This is her story.
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“Susan Musgrave's third novel alternates between brutal emotion and raw, dark humour . . . . It's a beautiful, poetic book with a well-constructed plot and a conclusion with enough twists for a crime fiction novel.” — January Magazine
“In the annals of death-house literature it’s rare that a novel leans on stand-up comedy. Susan Musgrave’s Cargo of Orchids does so brilliantly . . . . Cargo of Orchids is wonderful fun; terrifying, unforgettable and sui generis.” — BC Bookworld
“Tropical locales, illicit affairs, desperate escapes, cocaine addicts and hot sex scenes . . . . In a lyrical narrative sliced with dark graphic humour . . . Musgrave artfully turns up the tension as she twists the plot, humanizing the characters despite their ugly underbellies. It’s a disturbing but eloquent argument against incarceration and capital punishment.” — Chatelaine
“[Musgrave] inhabits her subjects like a second skin, injecting them with a sad wisdom and complex sympathy.” — Elm Street Magazine
“Musgrave’s poetic gift is evident in the powerful depiction of the island of Tranquilandia, where the narrator is held against her will. The reader feels the sweltering heat, flinches at the sound of scurrying rats and catches the penetrating scent of orchids.” — The Gazette (Montreal)
“In Cargo of Orchids, Musgrave has created an engaging and extremely moving story.” — Kitchener-Waterloo Record
“Graphic in its depiction of what execution actually entails, Musgrave’s novel provides an effective protest against the calculated brutality of state-sanctioned murder, and the Death Rows that warehouse their human cargo for years on end. By placing this issue squarely in our faces, Cargo of Orchids, a novel laced with equal parts black humour... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
“In the annals of death-house literature it’s rare that a novel leans on stand-up comedy. Susan Musgrave’s Cargo of Orchids does so brilliantly . . . . Cargo of Orchids is wonderful fun; terrifying, unforgettable and sui generis.” — BC Bookworld
“Tropical locales, illicit affairs, desperate escapes, cocaine addicts and hot sex scenes . . . . In a lyrical narrative sliced with dark graphic humour . . . Musgrave artfully turns up the tension as she twists the plot, humanizing the characters despite their ugly underbellies. It’s a disturbing but eloquent argument against incarceration and capital punishment.” — Chatelaine
“[Musgrave] inhabits her subjects like a second skin, injecting them with a sad wisdom and complex sympathy.” — Elm Street Magazine
“Musgrave’s poetic gift is evident in the powerful depiction of the island of Tranquilandia, where the narrator is held against her will. The reader feels the sweltering heat, flinches at the sound of scurrying rats and catches the penetrating scent of orchids.” — The Gazette (Montreal)
“In Cargo of Orchids, Musgrave has created an engaging and extremely moving story.” — Kitchener-Waterloo Record
“Graphic in its depiction of what execution actually entails, Musgrave’s novel provides an effective protest against the calculated brutality of state-sanctioned murder, and the Death Rows that warehouse their human cargo for years on end. By placing this issue squarely in our faces, Cargo of Orchids, a novel laced with equal parts black humour... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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Never to be forgotten,
This review is from: Cargo of Orchids (Hardcover)
I was a bit skeptical to read this book, all I knew about the author was that she wrote poems - and I hadn't read any of them. Much to my pleasure - this book was fascinating. It was raw, real, honest and utterly irrisistable. I found myself reading slower and slower as I got to the end - simply because I didn't want it to end. The reader is immediatly brought into the narrator's world, you feel her feelings, her fright and her pain. It's a great read - one that you won't ever forget.
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Best Book ever,
By Amanda Smyth (Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cargo of Orchids (Paperback)
I started reading this novel in my Canadian literature course.I wasn't sure exactly what to expect, especially seeing how this is a school thing. This woman brings you right into her life, showing you the different demented ways that some people on this planet live. She tells you about her insanely horrifying life. Everything from her marriage, her drug addicted ways, her affair with a married man in prison, giving birth to her baby boy in a morgue next to a dead woman whom she had just seen a few days before in a restaurant where she was having breakfast with her kidnapper,who is also the wife of her childs father. This novel gets better by the paragraph. It grasps your interest so tight that you don't want to put it down until it's finished. I would honestly rate this non-fiction novel the best I have ever read.
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