At 52, Wilson, butterfly hunter, is feeling the weight of a past rich in errors and false starts. At the same time, he is obsessed with Gloria, a Chinese girl with a patch on one eye, he met in Hong Kong five years earlier. Gloria had led him into a "garden"-if that's really happened. It's from this "garden" that Wilson feels he must now escape. He returns to Hong Kong in the summer of 2000, to collect butterflies and help fight a plan to turn Hong Kong's Centipede Island into a landfill. But Wilson can only think of Gloria. With the summer coming to an end, he knows he must confront his obsession and maybe save his own life….
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Richard Lutman has a MFA in Writing from Vermont College and is listed in the Directory of Poets and Writers. He has taught composition, writing and literature courses at Rhode Island Community College, The Learning Connection in Providence, Rhode Island, Fairfield University, and short story classes as part of Coastal Carolina's University's Lifelong Learning Program.
He has won awards for his short stories, nonfiction, and screenplays. He was a 2008 Push Cart nominee in fiction. His novella "Iron Butterfly" set in Hong Kong was shortlisted in the 2011 Santa Fe Writers Project competition. His first novel was published in 2016. A collection of his stories is due in Spring of 2019