About the Author

Edward Hower is the author of nine books, including the novels The New Life Hotel and A Garden of Demons, as well as The Pomegranate Princess, a volume of folktales he collected while on Fullbright Grants in India. He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Smithonian, Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications. He lives in Ithaca, NY with his wife, the novelist Alison Lurie.

Available in March 2005

The Storms of May

Ontario Review Press 2005

Hower's characters are totally engaging, and the reader is quickly caught up in their lives. The Storms of May is charged with suspense and full of surprises.

In The Storms of May, Ruth Sullivan, an idealistic young woman with a troubled past, runs a group home with her artist husband, Mike. Together they care for five at-risk teenage girls as volatile and erratic as they are appeling. Her heart goes out to the troubled kids, but as she struggles to help them turn their lives around, a mysterious girl who calls herself May Royale arrives like a typhoon, noisily upsetting the home's fragile peace. Soon May introduces to the scene her boyfriend, Paco, a flashy former gang member desperate to escape his family's criminal legacy. Paco, like May, is not all he seems at first, as Ruth discovers to both her delight and terror. Her involvement with him pushes her courage to the limits as she test both her convictions and her marriage. READ MORE

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A Garden of Demons

Ontario Review Press 2003

A novel to be published by the Ontario Review Press

Modern terrorism, like ancient beliefs in spirits and ghosts, thrives in lush, beautiful Sri Lanka, the setting of Edward Hower's new novel, A Garden of Demons. There Lila, a gifted half-American girl, begins to see her once-idyllic world in new ways when her Uncle Richard, just out of prison in the States, joins her family on a visit. Though he seeks peace in her parents' jungle nature sanctuary, Richard must instead help them to confront the dangers which threaten to destroy their home and, with frightening intensity, put an end to Lila's innocence. read an interview of the author

A Story from Voices In The Water

Pebbles

Collected Stories by Edward Hower

My grandfather, a pauper at the end and a lifelong athiest, spent the last months of his life building a church on the grounds of a state mental hospital, where he lived in the old folks' wing. All day he collected pebbles and pressed them down in long straight lines on a dirt area that the staff called the recreation yard. Sometimes he knelt down under one of the oak trees and called on the Lord to reveal exactly where He wanted the walls erected. read more