Waking Up in Eden

A woman journeys to Kauai to save Hawaii’s native plants: “Part history, part personal confession, part cautionary tale about environmental preservation ” ( Gioia Diliberto, author of Paris Without End ).   One day, Lucinda Fleeson quit her big-city newspaper job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden.   Imagine a hundred-acre garden estate nestled amid ocean cliffs, rain forests, and seclude