The Butterfly Garden
Dot Hutchison, 2016
A survivor tells the FBI how she lived inside a collector's garden, where young women were kept and tattooed like butterflies.
Dot Hutchison
The novel is built as framed testimony: Maya tells her story to FBI agents, so every scene arrives through a survivor's controlled account.
Feels like dread, freedom and identity.
The fairy tale that explains why some people keep striking matches.
And that stupid little girl stood in the winter and kept lighting matches to catch glimpses of families that weren’t—could never be—hers and froze to death in those harsh moments of reality between matches, because even though matches can burn, they’re light, not heat. Books by Dot Hutchison
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