The Crying Tree : A Novel (Paperback)

from quadmama

The crying tree by Naseem Rahka is a story told in an alternating time line between the past and present. The story centers around the shooting death of a 15 year old boy and the fall out of his death on his family and the community. Gripping, roller coaster of emotions bringing you on a journey ...

from nicole

The beautifully written characters of The Crying Tree are stunningly real. It's a story of devastating loss that also tells of unbelievable forgiveness on the part of the mother. One of the interesting things about The Crying Tree is the way Rakha reveals how the family came to be as they are in ...

from em18966

I don't always like a book that has me tearing up before page fifty. Of course, when I am reading something called The Crying Tree, I probably should have seen it coming. But...there aren't many books (no matter how many sappy images are called to mind with the title) that trigger my waterworks. ...

from TrishNYC

Irene Stanley is startled when her husband Nate walks in one day and announces that he has gotten a new job in another city and the whole family is to move. Irene is confused and somewhat perplexed by this move and cannot understand why they must leave her childhood home, a home that they own mor...

from dk_phoenix

To be honest, I think this is the book that's stalled my reviews lately... I haven't posted what I thought about it because, well, I wasn't entirely sure what I thought about it. It's definitely not the kind of thing I would usually pick up on my own (it was an ARC), and the description of the bo...