Compare Banana Rose by Natalie Goldberg, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

The first novel from the author of Writing Down the Bones. Nell Schwartz, a Brooklyn-born Jewish girl who moves to the Taos of communes and sweet cedar smoke, transforms herself into Banana Rose (because she's "bananas"), falls in love with a horn player named Gaughin, and believes they can stop time if they just love hard enough | Banana Rose by Natalie Goldberg, Paperback | Indigo Chapters