White Gardenias

A fiercely vivid collection of guests are brought together by ageing Professor Tom North to his Southern Oregon farm. White Gardenias is the second novel by author Sam Millar that traces the annual calling of the great and the good from North's classes in Michigan. Written with an immediate sense of place, the summer of 1974 sees a group of former and current proteges brought together in the claustrophobic and ominous confines of Saint Roch farm. The story traces the lives of the extended group of writers and literary voices as they struggle to cope with their lives and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism.