Krista Lamprich McClellan (Birds and Bees of the Octopus's Garden) Book Signing

For Immy Moss, sixth grade science teacher and synesthete, life is a treadmill of lifeless biology lessons, no one to cook for or have pun wars with, and disastrous blind dates. Her apartment is a den of anonymity, her spiritual life flatter than the Nebraska cornfields.

But that all changes when Immy (whose name is short for John Lennon’s “Imagine”) plants a hidden (and forbidden) garden against the masonry of her gated apartment complex. Her quirky artistic nature begins to bloom, as does a remarkable relationship with her elderly neighbor, Bettie. Life, it turns out, is full of flavor. As her world turns from grayscale to color, Immy finds love, explores the precious, story-laden heritages of heirloom seeds and wrestles with the world’s faith traditions, all in her quest to surmount the walls of spiritual arrogance and agricultural monoculture. Through it all, she decides that the Beatles may have been right all along: “All You Need Is Love.
Saturday, September 5, 2015 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
53 W Main St
Mystic, CT 06355