The Lion Trees
by Owen Thomas
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Pub Date Aug 26 2014 | Archive Date Sep 15 2015
Description
What if survival required you to unlearn who you are? How far would you fall to save yourself? Sometimes happiness is a long way down.
The Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague’s daughter. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have become. 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. 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.
By 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.
Winner of Fourteen International Book Awards including a Gold Medal from the Global eBook Awards, Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and a Finalist for the First Horizon Award and the Beverly Hills International Book Award. The Lion Trees is currently a semi-finalist for the Kindle Book Award.
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Praise for The Lion Trees:
“[A] cerebral page turner...a powerful and promising debut.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A sweeping literary saga in the tradition of Dr. Zhivago, Gone with the Wind, and The Thorn Birds, this book has it all, including scandal, aspiration, treachery, and reinvention. Thomas’ fiction has a fresh feel—original and stirring… By turns exhilarating and exhausting, Thomas creates compelling, rich characters. The ending is just as satisfying as the beginning. — The Eric Hoffer Book Award
“[FIVE STARS]… “highly addictive, spectacular, and mind blowing” – The US Review of Books
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780692248379 |
| PRICE | $27.00 (USD) |
