Treeborne - caleb johnson

I cant remember the last time I read a book I wish so much Id written.

Treeborne is beautiful, and mythic in ways I would never have been able to imagine.

I cant say enough about this book.

--Daniel 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 change--and when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it wont withstand much more.

So she tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve Elbertas 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 Johnsons 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.