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Flowers on the Wall
A story of love, devotion, and friendship translated at times by the beautiful language of flowers.
When Meg stared at the deep purple irises atop her kitchen counter, she recoiled at their sorrowful murmur. On Mariah’s night table, a bouquet of orange roses light-up her face as she listens to their joyful whispers. While 30-year-old Mariah’s life moves forward, navigating the everyday of life’s expectations, friendship, love, and motherhood, 60-year-old Meg’s life is rooted in the past, a labyrinth of treacherous memories entrenched in the devastating loss of a child.
When Mariah experiences a ravaging illness after becoming pregnant, their lives become united.A tale of two women separated by their own struggles yet united by a special bond. Through the sad memories of one the reader gets to know the other, their past and future intertwined. One story unravels forward while the other must stitch its way through the past.In Flowers
On the Wall, Tanya Paris, draws the reader in with a cast of well-drawn characters who feel very real to us. Her knack is getting us to care about these people as if we have know them for our entire lives. She makes their love, their joy, and their pain matter. --David Summergrad
This piece of literary fiction is honestly one of the best pieces I have read in a long time. From the drama to discovering the resolution of all characters has left me on the edge of my seat wanting more. --Emilia Rivera
Flowers on the Wall is Paris' literary gift to us readers, and there is no better noun for this novel, but a A gift of relationships, courage, kindness, integrity, dignity; perfection. Perfect, with all the meanings of the and ugly, joyful and sad--as sad as a garden without the eyes and tongues of others--as life itself. Meg's and Mariah's journeys will take the reader into this garden, its variety of flowers, its multiplicity of colors, its thorns, its language, its silent predators, and its inevitable decay. Flowers on the Wall is an invitation to love one's life and appreciate just a bit more the voyage, and, especially the people that brought us there, their love, their being. ¡Enhorabuena! --Kianny N. Antigua
When Meg stared at the deep purple irises atop her kitchen counter, she recoiled at their sorrowful murmur. On Mariah’s night table, a bouquet of orange roses light-up her face as she listens to their joyful whispers. While 30-year-old Mariah’s life moves forward, navigating the everyday of life’s expectations, friendship, love, and motherhood, 60-year-old Meg’s life is rooted in the past, a labyrinth of treacherous memories entrenched in the devastating loss of a child.
When Mariah experiences a ravaging illness after becoming pregnant, their lives become united.A tale of two women separated by their own struggles yet united by a special bond. Through the sad memories of one the reader gets to know the other, their past and future intertwined. One story unravels forward while the other must stitch its way through the past.In Flowers
On the Wall, Tanya Paris, draws the reader in with a cast of well-drawn characters who feel very real to us. Her knack is getting us to care about these people as if we have know them for our entire lives. She makes their love, their joy, and their pain matter. --David Summergrad
This piece of literary fiction is honestly one of the best pieces I have read in a long time. From the drama to discovering the resolution of all characters has left me on the edge of my seat wanting more. --Emilia Rivera
Flowers on the Wall is Paris' literary gift to us readers, and there is no better noun for this novel, but a A gift of relationships, courage, kindness, integrity, dignity; perfection. Perfect, with all the meanings of the and ugly, joyful and sad--as sad as a garden without the eyes and tongues of others--as life itself. Meg's and Mariah's journeys will take the reader into this garden, its variety of flowers, its multiplicity of colors, its thorns, its language, its silent predators, and its inevitable decay. Flowers on the Wall is an invitation to love one's life and appreciate just a bit more the voyage, and, especially the people that brought us there, their love, their being. ¡Enhorabuena! --Kianny N. Antigua
376 pages, Paperback
Published August 2, 2020
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About the author
Tanya Montás Paris
14 books3 followersTanya is a native of the Hispaniola. She has been a classroom teacher for over two decades. She enjoys immersing herself in fantastical worlds whether of her own creation or
imagined by others. Tanya is happiest when riding upon dragons, scheming with fairies or concocting potions of mischievous outcomes. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and their two teenagers.Tanya is the author of the following children stories: The Runaway Piglet, My Mommy's Hair, Rosalinda, Mi mami trabaja mucho, La cerdita soñadora, A dormir, mi niña, and La Bella en bicicleta. She is currently working on an adult novel.
Tanya is also the co-founder of Las Margaritas Foundation, a non-profit organization
working to educate underserved children in the Dominican Republic.
Visit her at www.tanyaparis.weebly.com
imagined by others. Tanya is happiest when riding upon dragons, scheming with fairies or concocting potions of mischievous outcomes. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and their two teenagers.Tanya is the author of the following children stories: The Runaway Piglet, My Mommy's Hair, Rosalinda, Mi mami trabaja mucho, La cerdita soñadora, A dormir, mi niña, and La Bella en bicicleta. She is currently working on an adult novel.
Tanya is also the co-founder of Las Margaritas Foundation, a non-profit organization
working to educate underserved children in the Dominican Republic.
Visit her at www.tanyaparis.weebly.com
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June 3, 2022
The complex characters in this book stayed with me long after I wiped my tears and placed this book in an honored position on my bookshelf. As the book bounces forward through the happy events of Mariah's life, the reader is also drawn back in time to witness the sorrow in Meg's life. These two story lines meet full-circle, and the reader is left to muse upon love, friendship and loss. I have read this book more than once, and I imagine that I will read it again.
June 6, 2022
So beautifully written. The plot was intriguing with a very nice twist midpoint. The characters are multi-dimensional (very real lifelike). I felt that I know them personally. I love all the local reference. The city felt any an additional character. I like when authors do that. Overall, a very nice read.
June 1, 2022
A great read!
I fell in love with Mariah!
I fell in love with Mariah!
June 5, 2022
This is a page turner that had me laughing one minute, crying the next. I loved learning of the relationships between characters, that weren’t obvious right from the start.
June 6, 2022
A great read for sure!
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