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Overview
There is something disquieting about Lillian Eden even though she lives a quiet life running her bakery, tending her gardens and raising her daughter in a small Wisconsin town. She is too---too stunning, too free spirited and too mysterious. When blight causes a shortage of wheat and bread, Lillian continues to bake and sell her bread at a record pace.The wheat crisis spreads worldwide, disrupting the commodities markets where Andrew Markem and Ashley Strow work. Wheat farmers like John and Stef Breese lose their livelihoods. As the problems and suffering deepen, scientists are stymied; all the wheat seed is vulnerable. Finally the government takes action, including sending the FBI to investigate Lillian and her Staff of Life Bakery.
Even as she is called to testify before a Congressional hearing, Lillian is unmoved, her power is drawn from her own deep wisdom and love of the earth, which she sees in defiled by modern technology. Raised are timely questions about the security of our food supply and stewardship of the earth, making the imaginative step of crop destruction to a possible reality. Lillian will not reveal her secrets nor hand over her ancient seed, and instead offers her own solution. In the end, the reader discovers Lillian’s magnificent secret.
Daughters of Eden presents the potential of feminine energy to solve our modern conflicts, and the potential of untapped feminine wisdom and power. Embedded in the many layers of the story are the suspense of a mystery, the joy of a love story, and the truth of a legend.
Synopsis
There is something disquieting about Lillian Eden even though she lives a quiet life running her bakery, tending her gardens and raising her daughter in a small Wisconsin town. She is too---too stunning, too free spirited and too mysterious. When blight causes a shortage of wheat and bread, Lillian continues to bake and sell her bread at a record pace.The wheat crisis spreads worldwide, disrupting the commodities markets where Andrew Markem and Ashley Strow work. Wheat farmers like John and Stef Breese lose their livelihoods. As the problems and suffering deepen, scientists are stymied; all the wheat seed is vulnerable. Finally the government takes action, including sending the FBI to investigate Lillian and her Staff of Life Bakery.
Even as she is called to testify before a Congressional hearing, Lillian is unmoved, her power is drawn from her own deep wisdom and love of the earth, which she sees in defiled by modern technology. Raised are timely questions about the security of our food supply and stewardship of the earth, making the imaginative step of crop destruction to a possible reality. Lillian will not reveal her secrets nor hand over her ancient seed, and instead offers her own solution. In the end, the reader discovers Lillian’s magnificent secret.
Daughters of Eden presents the potential of feminine energy to solve our modern conflicts, and the potential of untapped feminine wisdom and power. Embedded in the many layers of the story are the suspense of a mystery, the joy of a love story, and the truth of a legend.
Book Details
Published
December 31, 2010
Publisher
Ann Sawyer
ISBN
9780982896723