Clouds, Tahiti And Moorea

As managing editor of Nimbus Cat, I’m adding my thanks for your likes and reblogs for Nimbus Cat! Special thanks for your reblogs to sofiz24, telescopical, theovernightguy as well as to all mentioned here. Apologies to those not mentioned -- we are grateful for your support. Fluffy hugs & thanks to Algy and Jenny Chapman.  -- Lillian

Stairs to the Woods

Sleepy Hollow, California

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Garden of Liminal Delights

collage for Lillian Howan by Jen Soong

Starfruit

Carambola

University of Hawai’i Press (2017)

The Charm Buyers describes extraordinary beauty and turbulent change: Tahiti during the last years of nuclear testing in the Pacific.

“The Charm Buyers isn’t just a book, it’s a world―full of the complexity and beauty of life, masterfully created. Reading this felt like diving into a reality both eerily familiar and yet artistically brand new. Lillian Howan’s talent is rare, refreshing, and casts a spell from page one.” —Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day and Pym

“The Charm Buyers is a thought-provoking insight into a time of cultural change. It captures an essence of existing between reality and surreality, dreaming and wakefulness, the past and the future.” —Foreword Reviews

https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-charm-buyers/

View From Point Venus

Island of Moorea in the Distance

POLYNESIA: PARADISE LOST?

In this two-part feature, Lillian Howan, author of a powerful novel set in Tahiti, offers a revealing interview and a lyrical essay describing her cultural heritage, her creativity and her experie…

Thank you author & literary shaman Leslie Stuart Tate for interviewing me on my childhood in Tahiti and my novel The Charm Buyers, as well as chronic illness, and lupus. Thankful to Francoise Holozet-Howan for the spectacular photos - this interview begins with a translation of her message re why she shares these photos: to bring more awareness to the environmental vulnerability of these islands, on the frontlines of climate change.