Event Dime

The Cutting Garden by Poelgeest, Darcy Van

When:

July 25, 2026 · 9:50 AM

Where:

Fairfax County Public Library

Source:

Fairfax County Public Library

A tender, brutal love story about mothers and daughters and what we become in their absence in this gorgeous, hand-painted original graphic novel. On a quiet street in 1930s New Orleans, a florist agrees to work through the night to construct a floral arrangement for a funeral the coming morning for a peculiar customer—a precocious 11-year-old girl named Adeil who pays the florist in stories. For every new flower the florist adds to the bouquet, Adeil offers another dissonant detail in her story