Michel Stone’s novel, The Iguana Tree, was released March 12, 2012 in Spartanburg, South Carolina at the HUB-BUB Showroom with hundreds of people in attendance.  Check out the video below if you missed the party!

The book was awarded a bronze medal in the National Literary Fiction category of the 2012 IPPY Awards  (126 novels entered) and was named a spring 2012 "Okra Pick" from the Southern Independent Booksellers Association!

FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
 

"Michel Stone’s first novel, The Iguana Tree, is an astonishing achievement, a daring but plausible leap into a world unnoted by most of us yet close around us daily. This story is at once a page-turner and a moving, psychologically genuine drama. "

Rosa Shand
Author of The Gravity of Sunlight, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year