In an age of industrialized and globalized agriculture, many of us have grown up disconnected from the production of our food, despite its critical importance in our day-to-day lives. We buy strawberries...

"Garden Spells" by Sarah Addison Allen (first red flag: writer takes herself seriously enough to include her full name on the cover only a few font sizes smaller than the book’s actual title) drew me because I liked the idea of a mysterious garden in which anything—even magic?—can happen.