Meet Me in the Garden

Meet Me in the Garden

by Nina LaCour

Flatiron Books · 2026 · 400 pages

In 1940s New Orleans, two young Creole cousins navigate societal expectations and clandestine desires in a hidden garden sanctuary. Odette dreams of being an artist and loves a woman, while Delphine hides her relationship with a white man. Five years later, Odette is a widowed mother in Los Angeles, estranged from Delphine, who is passing as white. This sweeping saga explores forbidden love, artistic ambition, and the enduring bonds of family across decades and the backdrop of the Great Migration.

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