A Crooked Tree

It’s been ages since I took an outdoor book pic. Last week we had snow fog, and I thought it went perfect with the cover of this book.❄️

I’m on a roll this weekend with engrossing page turners! I’m currently in the middle of a haunting and suspenseful coming of age story filled with heart.

A Crooked Tree by @unamannion grabbed my attention from the beginning and hasn’t let go yet. Mannion has done an excellent job of describing rich and vibrant characters, that are fully developed, with rich scenery, and told at a steady pace that begged me to stay up all night in order to find out what happens next.

This book really is a must read. You too will feel like you’re an intimate part of the family as they deal with a negligent mother and the ill fated decision she made one night.

💬What was your favorite part of summer as a kid?

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with The Field Guide to the Trees of North America, a gift her Irish immigrant father gave her before he died. She finds solace in “The Kingdom,” a stand of red oak and thick mountain laurel near her home in suburban Pennsylvania, where she can escape from her large and unruly family and share menthol cigarettes and lukewarm beers with her best friend.

One night, while driving home, Libby’s mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby’s little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.

A Crooked Tree is a surprising, indelible novel, both a poignant portrayal of an unmoored childhood giving way to adolescence, and a gripping tale about the unexpected reverberations of one rash act.