The Story

This is the story of how a woman’s soul tripped into freedom and knowing.

It sprouted from a short story Leslie posted on an Internet forum. Within four months, more than 160,000 people read her story, a satire about how a simple housewife and mom saved herself from "domesticide,” which she explains as “the slow death of who you are by what you have become while chasing the elusive Happily Ever After.”

Readers from around the globe stood up and cheered “More, more, more!” declaring the twisted tale an “Eat, Pray, Love” for the ordinary, career/kid juggling woman.

Now a complete book, The Garden That Grew Her is the humorous and compelling memoir of a housewife’s journey as she endeavors to bring consciousness into her drama-satiated life. It begins when the author trades her unsatisfying middle-class, cookie-baking life for a career selling used cars. Eight years later, she stumbles onto the unpredictable path toward enlightenment and manages to find peace without turning into a mantra-chanting mountain goat.

Original poems and lyrics by Marilee Pallant

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