The Garden of Dead Dreams By Abby Quillen Sidewalk Press: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-9899822-3-8 $13.95, 253 pp. Reviewed by Eduardo Rey Brummel In her novel’s opening lines, Abby Quillen tells us: Etta Lawrence wasn’t the only one who came to Roosevelt Lodge to become someone else. That’s why they’d all come. Forty-some years earlier, Vincent Buchanan bought the land surrounding Roosevelt Lodge and started a writing academy. There, in this secluded section of Oregon, students have arrived each year, spending eleven monastic months strengthening and refining their craft – and hoping to win that year’s Buchanan Prize, which promises literary fame ...
