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Paul T. Harry attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas as an English major with a theater arts minor before beginning his career as a writer and music producer. He also worked as an editor with Second Avenue Songwriter’s magazine and has spent the last 30 years writing novels, screenplays and short stories. Paul resides in Gold Canyon, Arizona.
Reviewed by Lucianne Carino Bernal for Readers' Favorite
"The Garden: The Unauthorized Biography of Adam and Eve" by Paul T. Harry is certainly an ambitious undertaking just as it sounds. In it the author attempts to rewrite the story of Adam and Eve with a more scientific leaning, albeit a fictitious one. In his painstakingly detailed version, Adam and Eve are actually the a lucky couple from the Delii system who have been chosen to rule as stewards on Terran AKA Earth in order to facilitate their evolution and continued survival, a process which has been disrupted by the rebellion of the Terran's initial ruler, Mikatta AKA Lucifer, against Jhira, who is basically God. This novel relates how the couple came to be chosen and then undertook hundreds of years of training on the basic ins and outs of Terran before they were eventually sent there to slowly but effectively steer the planet towards greater evolutionary heights with the help of their immense knowledge and eventually their DNA.
Though not so much an autobiography but a chronicle of the rise and fall of this pivotal couple, Harry has crafted an impressively imaginative version of how things came to be, depicting iconic concepts such as the Tree of Life, the temptation of Eve, and the like in unexpected but refreshingly credible ways. Adam and Eve are completely human in all the ways that matter yet it was still believable to read how big of an impact they made on the primitive world they were tasked to guide. At the end of the story, it would be a great exercise to ponder on what the author asked at the beginning, "Could you have done things better?"
