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The Mother Tree

Charles Robinson

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Muted sentimentality, in a homespun representation of ""olden times"" and a gift turning eleven who spends a summer of freedom in a tree house at her grandparents' farm. It's a vacation for Tempe, who has kept house and tended four-year-old Laurie since their mother's death that winter, when father and big brother Phil get a summer job with a threshing crew in Oklahoma and the girls take their cow, pig and chickens to Granny's. It is Laurie, who has never assimilated her mother's death, who names the mesquite tree; Tempe, too, clings to it as a haven from responsibility. But aided by Granny's indirect guidance and a windstorm that cracks the mesquite and fells their tree house, both girls are ready, when the men return, to go home and take up their lives. It's mild nostalgia for the predisposed, but it's dealt with an easy hand and a quiet feel for almost-eleven-year-old anxieties.

Language: English

Pages: 149

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1971

The Mother Tree

Charles Robinson

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Muted sentimentality, in a homespun representation of ""olden times"" and a gift turning eleven who spends a summer of freedom in a tree house at her grandparents' farm. It's a vacation for Tempe, who has kept house and tended four-year-old Laurie since their mother's death that winter, when father and big brother Phil get a summer job with a threshing crew in Oklahoma and the girls take their cow, pig and chickens to Granny's. It is Laurie, who has never assimilated her mother's death, who names the mesquite tree; Tempe, too, clings to it as a haven from responsibility. But aided by Granny's indirect guidance and a windstorm that cracks the mesquite and fells their tree house, both girls are ready, when the men return, to go home and take up their lives. It's mild nostalgia for the predisposed, but it's dealt with an easy hand and a quiet feel for almost-eleven-year-old anxieties.

Language: English

Pages: 149

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1971

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