Flower Garden

Flower Garden is an exploration of the human soul. It discusses love, narcissism, grief, anger, and all of the other things that make up our essence as people. Written in a series of short passages, each only requiring a few minutes to pore over, the reader moves through the pages as if sauntering through a garden—as if stopping briefly to take in the tulips before continuing on to the orchids.

The passage “On Flirtation” discusses humanity’s reliance on flirtation as a concealment for hypocrisy; “Death Is a Trifle” argues that, as something beyond our awareness, death is completely insignificant; “The Illusion of Bravery” explains that there is no measure for true bravery because there is no way to know how much fear one person is experiencing over another; and in “Anger Makes You Feel Powerful,” Vidal discusses how people let their fear transform into anger in order to feel powerful again. These are four examples of the seventy-seven “flowers” in Vidal’s garden. Come take a life-changing stroll through Flower Garden.