Mockett Marie Mutsuki
Mockett Marie Mutsuki - The Tree Doctor A Novel - Paperback
Mockett Marie Mutsuki - The Tree Doctor A Novel - Paperback
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Description: A startling erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's self When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel California to care for her mother she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away she becomes preoccupied with her mother's garden convinced it contains a kind of visual puzzle and the dormant cherry tree within it. Caught between tending to an unwell parent and the weight of obligation to her distant daughters and husband she becomes isolated and unmoored. She soon starts a torrid affair with an arborist who is equally fascinated by her mother's garden and together they embark on reviving it. Increasingly engrossed by the garden and by the awakening of her own body she comes to see her mother's illness as part of a natural order in which things are perpetually living and dying consuming and being consumed. All the while she struggles to teach (remotely) Lady Murasaki's eleventh - century novel The Tale of Genji which turns out to resonate eerily with the conditions of contemporary society in the grip of a pandemic. The Tree Doctor is a powerful beautifully written novel full of bodily pleasure intense observation of nature and a profound reckoning with the passage of time both within ourselves and in the world we inhabit.
Title: The Tree Doctor A Novel
Author(s): Mockett Marie Mutsuki
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644452776
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/19/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A startling erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's self When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel California to care for her mother she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away she becomes preoccupied with her mother's garden convinced it contains a kind of visual puzzle and the dormant cherry tree within it. Caught between tending to an unwell parent and the weight of obligation to her distant daughters and husband she becomes isolated and unmoored. She soon starts a torrid affair with an arborist who is equally fascinated by her mother's garden and together they embark on reviving it. Increasingly engrossed by the garden and by the awakening of her own body she comes to see her mother's illness as part of a natural order in which things are perpetually living and dying consuming and being consumed. All the while she struggles to teach (remotely) Lady Murasaki's eleventh - century novel The Tale of Genji which turns out to resonate eerily with the conditions of contemporary society in the grip of a pandemic. The Tree Doctor is a powerful beautifully written novel full of bodily pleasure intense observation of nature and a profound reckoning with the passage of time both within ourselves and in the world we inhabit.
Title: The Tree Doctor A Novel
Author(s): Mockett Marie Mutsuki
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644452776
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/19/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
