Book set in Carverville, CA – The Gardener of Eden, David Downie
California’s heat in a small timber town
Book set in Carverville, CA – The Gardener of Eden, David Downie. The coastal bluffs near the small town of Carverville prove to be a very memorable location in this novel. It’s a dying timber town where even darker things happen.
A fictional place but a forgotten timber town which is based on several in the California landscape in and around the Sierra Nevada mountains.
It’s a town which sounds bleak and raw. The weather and landscape match the events of the story. A man’s return to a changed landscape.
Book set in Carverville, CA – The Gardener of Eden, David Downie
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A tale of a cloistered old timber town with more secrets to share than you can shake a stick at…if you excuse the tree pun. There’s lots to like here and least of all the descriptions of the sad, faded old town that is Carverville. The name and town are fictional but based on so many timber towns in and along the coast of California.
Stories of one man returning to his washed up town after forty years away are going to be interesting. Particularly when he sees that the place has rotted away into something very different to what he left. In every sense of the word.
A discovery makes him questions everything and the fact that this is not a town which welcomes outsiders, even ones who lived here and then left. Particularly not them.
There’s not so much I can say without hinting at plot and how things turn out but this was an experience where I was cloistered in that small town mindset , the madness and the growing sense of doom.
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