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
From Nimbus Cat: heartfelt thanks to all our followers and our new followers!
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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/
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.
Author of The Charm Buyers, University of Hawai'i Press, recipient of the Ka Palapala Po'okela Award for Excellence; The Spellbound, forthcoming 2026
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