Words that dance on the page!
“Please share my personal landscape of generations of people live through the past and for the future.”
                                                   ~Glenda Mariah Bailey-Mershon
Picture Glenda Bailey-Mershon

​"Charged with secrets and brimming with heart, Eve's Garden is as juicy and tender as perfectly ripened fruit."
~ Gayle Brandeis
Author of Drawing Breath, Many Restless Concerns, Delta Girls and other books
"From the first pages of her debut novel, Glenda Bailey-Mershon invites us into the life of Eve Gates, a young woman in 1970s North Georgia, as she contemplates both a man she loves and the power of her own past. Of Romani descent, a 'Gypsy' heritage she has only overheard via the conversations of the women in her family, Eve has grown up listening for clues about who she is. Her mother has told her that blood from the womb makes women powerful, but her best friend falls victim to a community's small-minded views about sexuality. Eve longs to write, to travel, but must first understand a history she knows only in bits and pieces. Stories, as Bailey-Mershon tells us, can pour out of our hearts like water. With Eve's Garden, Glenda Bailey-Mershon invites us into a world where 'words lodged tight against the breastbone' free themselves, as secrets, personal and cultural, are finally reclaimed. "

~ Karen McElmurray, Author of Surrendered Child and The Motel of the Stars