The Tree of Life

Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award

"This small novel works like a laser beam, penetrating the American experience with searing and concentrated intensity."— Los Angeles Times

" The Tree of Life is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you …