Max Lakeman, an ordinary family man living a tidy, average suburban life, pursues a mysterious seductress conjured up out of his own powerful imagination and secret fantasies

A poignant, darkly comic novel by the author of Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger. A disfigured man stays in the safety of his parents' house for 16 years--until a fateful accident causes him to meet the woman who changes his life. "A gentle romantic fantasy of piercing and eccentric beauty".--Boston Globe. Optioned for a film by Scott Rudin (Flatliners).

An off-beat love story set in small-town America, by the author of Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger. At 16, Louis got burned. For years he hid his disfigurement under a baseball cap and a scarf, but one day he realized that life was there to be lived, not just watched from a bedroom window.

When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight… Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragedy—Amanda stoically holding it together while Oriana roams the forest searching for answers. And in Oriana’s magical, willful mind, she believes that Harry is the key to righting her world. Now it’s time for Harry to let go… After taking up residence in the woods behind Amanda’s house, Harry reluctantly agrees to help Oriana in a ludicrous scheme to escape his tragic past. In so doing, the unlikeliest of elements—a wolf, a stash of gold coins, a fairy tale called The Grum’s Ledger and a wise old librarian named Olive—come together to create a golden adventure that will fulfill Oriana’s wildest dreams and open Harry’s heart to a whole new life. Harry’s Trees is an uplifting story about the redeeming power of friendship and love and the magic to be found in life’s most surprising adventures.

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