WAKING UP IN EDEN: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. She encounters an endangered paradise--the Hawaii we don't see in the brochures. As she witnesses the island's plant renewal efforts, she sees her own life blossom again.