<p>In Karen Hartman’s "juicyfruit tragedy," two young sisters discover new appetites within the walls of their father’s garden. Gum explores the need to tame nature in a fictional fundamental country where the title candy is contraband and every desire has its price. "A brief, intense, beguiling, sensual, witty, impassioned, deeply moving and brightly burnished gem"—<i>San Francisco Examiner. </i>Also <i>includes The Mother of Modern Censorship</i>.</p><p><b>Karen Hartman </b>is the author of <i>Girl Under Grain, Troy Women and Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl.</i> She is a native of San Diego who lives in Brooklyn and is currently the playwright-in-residence at Princeton University.</p>