'The Tree Doctor' chronicles one woman's response to a series of life-changing crises
Marie Mutsuki Mockett's latest novel about a wife and mother is wise and sensitive, and a stunning reflection on how we reinvent ourselves when we're left with no other choice.
At the beginning of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's latest novel, The Tree Doctor, the unnamed narrator considers her mother's garden, which has fallen into some disrepair. She is particularly concerned about a series of particular flowers: "Many plants in the garden seemed to be faltering, but the fuchsias, which she had loved as a child and which supplied food for the hummingbirds, who would now have less to eat, were one wrong thing too many."
Her attempt to save theis an excellent novel, one that beautifully chronicles one woman's response to a series of life-changing crises.
