Hauntingly lyrical yet explicit in its regard to the fortunes of one family, Blossoming Wars takes us on a voyage that careens through the constructs of time and borders. From the turn of the last century into the inception of our present, the range of characters who cross dangerous borders and frontiers, only to find themselves joining up with this "family," are remarkable and vast. In confronting a world that appears ever more violent and chaotic, the soul of this family and that of nations are arduously bound until fused. In an era when walls are being erected to keep out the "other," LJ Hekaya creates a novel that does not merely assist in deconstructing those barriers, but crashes through them. This first novel in the Comedy of the Damned Trilogy offers up characters that, no matter their outer flaws, their inner integrity and equanimity in the presence of overwhelming odds is inspiring.
