Treeborne: A Novel

I canÆt remember the last time I read a book I wish so much IÆd written. Treeborne is beautiful, and mythic in ways I would never have been able to imagine...I canÆt say enough about this book.ùDaniel Wallace, national bestselling author of Extraordinary Adventures and Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions An Honorable Mention for the Southern Book Prize One of Southern Living's "Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018" and one of Library Journal's "Books to Get Now" Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic changeùand when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it wonÆt withstand much more. So she tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve ElbertaÆs legacy at any cost; of his wife, Maybelle, the postmaster, whose sudden death throws the town into chaos; of her lover, Lee Malone, a black orchardist harvesting from a land where he is less than welcome; of the time when Janie kidnapped her own Hollywood-obsessed aunt and tore the wrong people apart. As the world closes in on Elberta, Caleb JohnsonÆs debut novel lifts the veil and offers one last glimpse. Treeborne is a celebration and a reminder: of how the past gets mixed up in thoughts of the future; of how home is a story as much as a place.

• | Author: Caleb Johnson
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: May 07, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1250169100
• | ISBN-13: 9781250169105