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The Song of the Tree
Despite promises of eternal joy given by the Tree of Life, a privileged young woman loses everything in a brutal war. Her husband disappears; her family is murdered; her home is burned to the ground.
Desperate, starving, and burdened with an unwanted child, she now despises and rejects the Tree she once worshiped. Ripped from her land and people, forced into survival immigration, she becomes a lowly refugee, a servant in the homes of the rich. Her unusually gifted child thrives, but is an ever present reminder of ultimate loss and betrayal.
Two women: one broken, the other rooted in bitterness, continue to be drawn towards the song of a Tree that will not let them go. Along roads of degrading poverty and equally destructive wealth, each much wrestle with the siren call of perfect love, and its altar sacrifice of perfect trust.
The Song of the Tree is an intense, contemporary allegory that moves the God-seeker from fist shaking stance, down to knees before the throne.
Desperate, starving, and burdened with an unwanted child, she now despises and rejects the Tree she once worshiped. Ripped from her land and people, forced into survival immigration, she becomes a lowly refugee, a servant in the homes of the rich. Her unusually gifted child thrives, but is an ever present reminder of ultimate loss and betrayal.
Two women: one broken, the other rooted in bitterness, continue to be drawn towards the song of a Tree that will not let them go. Along roads of degrading poverty and equally destructive wealth, each much wrestle with the siren call of perfect love, and its altar sacrifice of perfect trust.
The Song of the Tree is an intense, contemporary allegory that moves the God-seeker from fist shaking stance, down to knees before the throne.
279 pages, ebook
First published December 14, 2012
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Lotis Key
2 books2 followersLotis Melisande Key (SAG/AFTRA) has lived a life of wide travel and curious variety. She’s raised horses in the Australian outback, skied the Alps, run tours through a tropical jungle, bought & sold antiquities. She’s been a restaurateur, a breeder of show cats, a third-world church planter. She’s worked in an orphanage and run a ministry for homeless children.
After a professional theater début at the age of twelve, she subsequently starred in over seventy five feature films for the Asian market. She’s also hosted numerous television and radio shows. Upon settling in the United States, she signed with Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis based talent agencies, expanding into American on-camera and voice over narration, industrial videos, trade shows, professional theater, television and radio commercials.
These days she is to be found accompanying her foster son, elite GM Wesley So, to chess games around the globe.
Lotis is passionate about everything she does. Her written work focuses on the mystery of God and His incomprehensible love for the unattractive, wayward parts, of His otherwise perfect, creation
After a professional theater début at the age of twelve, she subsequently starred in over seventy five feature films for the Asian market. She’s also hosted numerous television and radio shows. Upon settling in the United States, she signed with Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis based talent agencies, expanding into American on-camera and voice over narration, industrial videos, trade shows, professional theater, television and radio commercials.
These days she is to be found accompanying her foster son, elite GM Wesley So, to chess games around the globe.
Lotis is passionate about everything she does. Her written work focuses on the mystery of God and His incomprehensible love for the unattractive, wayward parts, of His otherwise perfect, creation
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July 30, 2013
Received this book from Net Galley. A very different book. You never learn the characters real names. Just what they are referred to as. A tragic story of a mothers devotion to her "princess". From riches to rags they come full circle in their journey to find themselves and each other. All through the story they never realize that what they are looking for is right in front of them. Love is neverending, and whatever God you believe in never leaves you. I really enjoyed this book. Read it!
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