scholar bookstore who a great partner of the cinema now it's my honor to introduce our author today abbott kahler is the new york times bestselling author of sin in the second city american rose liar liar, temptress, soldier, spy, the ghosts of eden park and edward edgar award finalist, best fact, crime and a novel where you end. native of philadelphia. she lives in new york city and in greenport, new york. she formerly wrote as karen abbott and her new book, which we are here for today, is titled eden a true story of sex, murder and utopia. at the dawn of world war, two hampton sides writes, there's a dash of conrad a bit of hitchcock notes of melville, darwin and robinson crusoe, and certainly more than a whiff of lord of the flies, but really eden, london completely its own thing. bizarre, mesmerize and completely tragic. compellingly tragic. kaler confronts an essential truth about those who ditched civilization. try as we might. humans cannot elude the tyranny of our own nature. now, hollywood has got this caught the eye of hollywood and ron howard is adapting the same to the big screen in a