7/5/2023 0 Comments The Lion Trees by Owen Thomas“… powerful, gripping and realistic story…Wonderful. “… In its structure and nature, reminds me above all of John Updike’s wonderful Harry Rabbit novels and their ability to summarize the essence of change in American society across a decade at a time.” – “ cerebral page turner…a powerful and promising debut.”-Kirkus Reviews And young Tilly, the black sheep, having traded literary promise for an improbable career as a Hollywood starlet, struggles to define herself amid salacious scandal, the demands of a powerful director, and the judgments of an uncompromising writer.īy turns comical and poignant, the Johns family is tumbling toward the discovery that sometimes you have to let go of your identity to find out who you are. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career capsizes in a storm of accusations involving a missing student and the legacy of Christopher Columbus. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have become. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague’s daughter. Anchorage, AK, Septem-( PR.com)- What happens when you get the life you aim for and it hurts like hell?
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