{"product_id":"the-tree-doctor-9781644452776","title":"The Tree Doctor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's self\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her mother's garden--convinced it contains a kind of visual puzzle--and the dormant cherry tree within it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaught between tending to an unwell parent and the weight of obligation to her distant daughters and husband, she becomes isolated and unmoored. She soon starts a torrid affair with an arborist who is equally fascinated by her mother's garden, and together they embark on reviving it. Increasingly engrossed by the garden, and by the awakening of her own body, she comes to see her mother's illness as part of a natural order in which things are perpetually living and dying, consuming and being consumed. All the while, she struggles to teach (remotely) Lady Murasaki's eleventh-century novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich turns out to resonate eerily with the conditions of contemporary society in the grip of a pandemic\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tree Doctor \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful, beautifully written novel full of bodily pleasure, intense observation of nature, and a profound reckoning with the passage of time both within ourselves and in the world we inhabit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marie Mutsuki Mockett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644452776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarie Mutsuki Mockett \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of a previous novel, \u003ci\u003ePicking Bones from Ash\u003c\/i\u003e, and two books of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Nebraska Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984303194227,"sku":"9.78164E+12","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_9df53228-05a8-4133-a285-934b8eb4c634.jpg?v=1760706732","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-tree-doctor-9781644452776","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}