It's also really experimental, because it's a series of numbered meditations or propositions from 1 to 240, so it's fragments of text. Katy Wix says: “It's really unique in that it really defies genre - it's part prose, part poetry, part memoir, part essay, part philosophical investigation, so it's really complex. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. It also makes you have a slightly different perception of the life of trees and how they interact with each other.

It brings together all these amazing themes about family, the complexities of being from an immigrant family, and clashes of culture as well. It becomes about activism and about academia, about being overlooked, about being ignored, about neurodiversity.

They're all fascinating in their own right, and from different cultures, and everyone relationships with trees. It cuts through generations of immigrant stories in America and brings you to the present day. It draws together, in almost short-stories, a bunch of American characters. Moving through history and across landscapes, this tree-filled novel unfurls our potential to destroy or restore the natural world.ĭan says: “It's an amazing book, really interesting and incredibly readable. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. A hard-partying undergraduate electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. taboo.An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. He is my partner in writing, excels as a script doctor and details man, and has an incredible singing voice! Together we're building what we hope to be a multimedia mecca on the Internet to bring interracial stories, dramas, romances, living and lifestyle up from the gutter where it's been for far too long - it is now life - no longer. I currently live in England with my South Yorkshire born husband. Other works are, Aphrodisiac - and the gradual released volumes of The Beauty of Man and Woman - our online drama series that is now up to Series 13, Episode 98, Chapter 269. The Webster Fields trilogy, book two, Gold Raven, book three, Family Reunion. My first novel ended up as a trilogy, which Princess Ces'alena was the start of. I'm a writer of quality interracial fiction drama. Together, he and I have 9 grandsons and another on the way. Happily married, mother of 3 children, step-mother of 5 by my husband.

I come from a very multicultural background.

The fancy by mercedes keyes