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In the tradition of The Giving Tree-except this time the tree tells his own story, and the love goes both ways.
Joe is a white oak, two hundred years old, and he remembers everything-because for a tree, memory is not in the mind. It is in the wood.
Every ring is a year: the boy who named him in 1837, the lovers who carved a heart in his bark in 1911, the war winter, the fire year, the girl who read in his shade for twenty summers and never came back.
In 2026, a surveyor ties an orange ribbon around Joe's trunk, and his death becomes a line item in a developer's folder. The same week, a ten-year-old girl named Sana follows her great-grandmother's trail to a tin hidden in his hollow-and hears him answer.
What follows is a ninety-year friendship, a town that discovers its own history is stored in the tree it was about to cut down, and an ending that begins with a wail and finishes among the stars.
Told in the first person by Joe himself-dry, patient, and older than every problem in the book-Joe: A Tree's Life in Two Hundred Rings is a novel about memory, breath, and what a forest can do when it cannot run.
In the tradition of The Giving Tree-except this time the tree tells his own story, and the love goes both ways.
Joe is a white oak, two hundred years old, and he remembers everything-because for a tree, memory is not in the mind. It is in the wood.
Every ring is a year: the boy who named him in 1837, the lovers who carved a heart in his bark in 1911, the war winter, the fire year, the girl who read in his shade for twenty summers and never came back.
In 2026, a surveyor ties an orange ribbon around Joe's trunk, and his death becomes a line item in a developer's folder. The same week, a ten-year-old girl named Sana follows her great-grandmother's trail to a tin hidden in his hollow-and hears him answer.
What follows is a ninety-year friendship, a town that discovers its own history is stored in the tree it was about to cut down, and an ending that begins with a wail and finishes among the stars.
Told in the first person by Joe himself-dry, patient, and older than every problem in the book-Joe: A Tree's Life in Two Hundred Rings is a novel about memory, breath, and what a forest can do when it cannot run.