Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Publication Year |
2010 |
ISBN-13 |
9781408810682 |
ISBN-10 |
1408810689 |
Binding |
Paperback |
Number of Pages |
384 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Weight (grms) |
495 |
Solomon's Oak" is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. To make ends meet, Glory Solomon, a young widow, is using the chapel her husband built on their central California farm, under a 200-year-old white oak tree, as a place to hold unusual weddings. Her first is for a bride and groom who want a pirate wedding. Fourteen-year-old Juniper McGuire is the surviving member of a family decimated by a local kidnapping. Juniper arrives on Glory's doorstep, pierced, tattooed, angry and homeless. When Glory's husband Dan was alive they took in foster children and raised them. But Juniper may be more than she has the capacity to handle. Joseph Vigil is a former Albuquerque police officer and crime lab photographer who was shot during an assignment. Now disabled and in constant pain, he came to California to photograph the giant trees of the state. Jo-Ann Mapson's deeply felt, wise and warm portrayal of broken souls finding their way back to humanity shows how these three people - along with a host of dogs, horses and goats - enter and transform each other's lives.
Jo-Ann Mapson
Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of eleven previous novels, including Finding Casey, Solomon's Oak, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo (CBS TV movie) and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their four dogs
Jo-Ann Mapson
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC