
- 310 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Stories We Tell: Today
- Days Her Missing: 1958
- The Peach Pit: 1958
- Peach Days: 1958
- Thicker than Blood: 1958
- What Mine Eye Hath Seen: 1958
- In the Beginning: 1929
- Stories We Tell: Today
- Seven Hundred Acres: 1958
- The Artist at Work: 1929
- To Dirt She Returneth: 1958
- Signs to Show the Way: 1958
- He Was, You Know, Thataway: 1929
- This is How She Survived: 1958
- Here’s What Didn’t Make the Paper: 1958
- Stories We Tell: Today
- His Masterpiece: 1929–1930
- Bring Her Back to Elberta: 1958
- The Last Last Conquistador: 1958
- She Could of Done Worse: 1958
- Till Death Do They Part: 1930
- The Hole in Lee Malone’s Guitar: 1958
- Stories We Tell: Today
- In the Eye of the Looker: 1958
- This Didn’t Make the Paper Either: 1958
- Blood’s All You Got Left: 1959
- Stories We Tell: Today
- Elberta Dawn: 1958
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright