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The Hedge Tree

The Hedge Tree


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Charity Eleanor Sintz likes girls better than boys but this is the least of her problems. The year is 1972, Tricky Dick is in the White House, and four-year-old Charity has managed to offend the better part of Roosevelt County, Indiana, by not crying at her mother's funeral. Charity learns at a young age that with rare exceptions, people in books are usually safer and more interesting than the people in front of her and that trees are more comforting than humans; sometimes Charity feels trapped in the wrong species. Left to her own devices, she grows into a random weed that can't find a squat in the garden. But if the entire world is outside the garden, maybe it's not all bad.

About the Author :
Laura J Merrell is a San Francisco-based writer with an MFA in creative writer from the University of San Francisco. She has been a waitress, a cab driver, a house cleaner, a telephone operator for the deaf, and for one unfortunate evening, a B girl, among other ventures. The Hedge Tree was both her master's thesis and her first novel.

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"Charity Sintz, the protagonist of Laura Merrell's debut novel, is simultaneously vital, ironic, self-depracating, and unloved. Colossally unloved, by a family of emotionally hobbled, delusionally self-righteous cowards, who subject her to serial abandonment and brutally negligent misunderstanding." "There was a hedge tree in the O'Bryans' side yard. Like the ones in Grandma East's yard, it always dropped the useless apples and thorn-tipped branches on the ground that had to be cleared away. The tree stretched up and out well enough for a room-sized tree house that Grandpa had built for Una from cedar wood. Una no longer used the tree house and reluctantly granted me access in exchange for a promise not to smoke inside. I enjoyed climbing up there to lie on the floor and inhale the cedar as I pretended to be someone else, someone smarter, prettier, and blessed with unconstrained talent for song, dance and stage." This beautifully descriptive passage occurs in the middle of this book that tells of the life of Charity Sintz from very early childhood to young adulthood. I found myself constantly cheering for Charity as she somehow kept persevering with strength and candid honesty against seemingly impossible odds and I literally could not put the book down.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780692945162
  • Publisher: Black and White Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Black and White Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0692945164
  • Publisher Date: 28 Aug 2017
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 400


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