Treeborne
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Treeborne

A Novel

  1. 310 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Treeborne

A Novel

About this book

A woman reflects on the history of her small rural Southern town, and her family's legacy within it, in this "beautiful and mythic" literary novel (Daniel Wallace).

An Honorable Mention for the Southern Book Prize

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 won't withstand much more. So she tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve Elberta's 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 Johnson's 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.

"I can't remember the last time I read a book I wish so much I'd written. Treeborne is beautiful, and mythic in ways I would never have been able to imagine . . . I can't say enough about this book." — New York Times –bestselling author Daniel Wallace

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraphs
  6. Stories We Tell: Today
  7. Days Her Missing: 1958
  8. The Peach Pit: 1958
  9. Peach Days: 1958
  10. Thicker than Blood: 1958
  11. What Mine Eye Hath Seen: 1958
  12. In the Beginning: 1929
  13. Stories We Tell: Today
  14. Seven Hundred Acres: 1958
  15. The Artist at Work: 1929
  16. To Dirt She Returneth: 1958
  17. Signs to Show the Way: 1958
  18. He Was, You Know, Thataway: 1929
  19. This is How She Survived: 1958
  20. Here’s What Didn’t Make the Paper: 1958
  21. Stories We Tell: Today
  22. His Masterpiece: 1929–1930
  23. Bring Her Back to Elberta: 1958
  24. The Last Last Conquistador: 1958
  25. She Could of Done Worse: 1958
  26. Till Death Do They Part: 1930
  27. The Hole in Lee Malone’s Guitar: 1958
  28. Stories We Tell: Today
  29. In the Eye of the Looker: 1958
  30. This Didn’t Make the Paper Either: 1958
  31. Blood’s All You Got Left: 1959
  32. Stories We Tell: Today
  33. Elberta Dawn: 1958
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. About the Author
  36. Newsletter Sign-up
  37. Contents
  38. Copyright