Hope for the Flowers has had many glowing reviews in its long life...

"I read it with deep appreciation for its message"
         - Coretta Scott King

"A perfect book for anyone dealing with anything at anytime"
         - Internet Review

"As I read the story the one thing that struck me was the manner in which the author almost perfectly recreated corporate life in the metaphor of a caterpillar’s life. As it turned out I was wrong. This book was NOT written with corporate in mind. It was the outcome of someone ’’sharing comfort with a friend who had just experienced death of someone close’’. Yet it had lent itself so beautifully to the purpose it was assigned (as course material in a business school) and to the imagination of its reader (myself)." -- Mouthshut.com Review

"While it may hold the attention of a child, it is really an allegory geared towards adults. As it criticizes the mediocrity of those goals which seem so all-important to us at the time, it offers us hope for a much more satisfying existence." - Epinions.com

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Another review...From "Eveoke" Dance Theatre Program:
..."Women can be, and are, catalysts and perpetuators of improvement. It is our continual concern that in everything we do, we "Evoke" new thought, perceptions, and ideas, both in ourselves and in our audiences. In this piece, we wish to evoke hope; difficult, sometimes next to impossible, for our new generation to find in the current state of our power-filled, money-run, plastic, intolerant world. Without hope, we have to fight for the dear lives of our spirits, souls, and even physical selves. Thus, we are able to recognize the most pressing need to preserve hope and evoke it in as many people as possible.

"Trina's 1972 tale, Hope for the Flowers, is one which my mother read to me on many occasions of my growing up, and was a natural choice for our company's goals with this production. It also enabled us to continue our exploration of imposed social doctrines that we began to deal with in Birth, Worth, and Hand-Me-Downs. Thus, Hope for the Flowers has become the second work in a trilogy of shows handling the important theme of Self vs. Institution. I am aware that people may find butterflies and fairies a bit fantastical, perhaps a bit unrealistic. But let us assure you, that in a world doused in ugly concrete, neon light, and acid rain; in a world of powerless people, repetitive cycles of hate an intolerance, rampant child, woman and minority abuse, frequent and growing occurrences of rape, AIDS, crack, guns, and impending Fascism, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE AS FANTASTIC AS POSSIBLE TO FIND OUR WAY THROUGH THE RAT MAZE WE'VE LANDED IN AND BACK INTO A PLACE WHERE SPIRIT CAN STILL BE SPIRIT.