Two Atlanta authors make their literary debuts during these waning days of summer, and both have author events in town next month.

Austyn Wohlers’ first novel “Hothouse Bloom” (Hub City Press, $24) charts the evolution of an anxious young woman who seems too emotionally fragile for this world. An unsuccessful painter with few acquaintances, a lackluster romance and an emotionally distant family, she’s led a life that was “aimless by every visible yardstick.” That is, until she inherits an apple orchard from a grandfather she barely knew.

Entranced by the kind of blind idealism that’s reserved for the young, Anna detaches from her former life and moves to the farm where she plans to build a life of her own design. Her goal is to create an environment where she can be at one with nature

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