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In the name of the trees, I retrieve you from hurt and sickness.
In a Philippine ritual of retrieval, Lola Narra tries to heal her granddaughter Dao who was paralysed in an accident that killed her father. They live in Canberra, far from the healing trees of their first home in the village of Iláwod where the story began. But between the Philippines and Australia, the land knows, the trees know: wound on wound on wound—lugad sa lugad sa lugad. Such is the colonial inheritance of four generations of Filipinas named after trees: Banaba, Narra, Pili and Dao. Their rifts are deep, their heartbreaks more wounding. They tell stories to hide, evade, or make truth bearable. But trees remember. They do not lie.
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In the name of the trees, I retrieve you from hurt and sickness.
In a Philippine ritual of retrieval, Lola Narra tries to heal her granddaughter Dao who was paralysed in an accident that killed her father. They live in Canberra, far from the healing trees of their first home in the village of Iláwod where the story began. But between the Philippines and Australia, the land knows, the trees know: wound on wound on wound—lugad sa lugad sa lugad. Such is the colonial inheritance of four generations of Filipinas named after trees: Banaba, Narra, Pili and Dao. Their rifts are deep, their heartbreaks more wounding. They tell stories to hide, evade, or make truth bearable. But trees remember. They do not lie.
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What is In the Name of the Trees about?
In the name of the trees, I retrieve you from hurt and sickness.
In a Philippine ritual of retrieval, Lola Narra tries to heal her granddaughter Dao who was paralysed in an accident that killed her father. They live in Canberra, far from the healing trees of their first home in the village of Iláwod where the story began. But between the Philippines and Australia, the land knows, the trees know: wound on wound on wound—lugad sa lugad sa lugad. Such is the colonial inheritance of four generations of Filipinas named after trees: Banaba, Narra, Pili and Dao. Their rifts are deep, their heartbreaks more wounding. They tell stories to hide, evade, or make truth bearable. But trees remember. They do not lie.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in In the Name of the Trees?
Fiction > Family saga / generational saga fiction
Where can I read a sample of In the Name of the Trees?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781922964281
How long is In the Name of the Trees and how many pages does it have?
In the Name of the Trees has 160 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book In the Name of the Trees?
Merlinda Bobis
Who is the Publisher of the book In the Name of the Trees?
Spinifex Press
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In the Name of the Trees is available as paperback(ISBN 9781922964281)
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