The Orchid Growers' Grandfather

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"I couldn't understand why someone would be arrested for having orchids," she says. "It's the, you can clearly tell that she thinks that everything in this book is fascinating." The author was inspired by a Miami Herald story about an alleged theft of rare orchids from a local nurse room.

This week: a non-fiction book that sometimes reads a lot like fiction, The Orchid Thief is only a little about the titular thief and a LOT about Florida and its history and its denizens. Plus, "orchidelirium," the part of the 19th century where the English aristocracy would just go wild for these bad boys.

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