The Butterfly Tree
An Extraordinary Saga of Seven Generations
From multi-national award-winning newspaper columnist Woody Woodburn comes a magical heartstring-pulling, heart-racing, debut novel about family ties that bind us across time.The Butterfly Tree: An Extraordinary Saga of Seven Generations is about family ties that bind us across time-and the universal quest to rise to a higher purpose and then lift the next generation upon our shoulders. It is about deep roots and strong branches, literally and figuratively, and about a single "family" tree being grafted from three disparate-and multiracial-lineages, and made more majestic because of these unions.This page-turning tale, told in short fast-paced chapters, takes readers on a sweeping adventure aboard the Mayflower and the Underground Railroad; under The Big Top of an 1860s American circus and inside a small high school athletic shed secretly inhabited by a homeless teenager in the 1980s; from the battlefields of the Civil War to the jungles of Vietnam; from 1620 to 2020.The seven generations in these pages are not all related by bloodline, but are bound together by love and friendship-and by a kitchen table that was borne from The Butterfly Tree. Each protagonist overcomes personal adversity before rising to help another, and in doing so a single "family" tree is grafted from three disparate-and multiracial-lineages, and made more majestic because of these unions. (lib)
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Woody Woodburn
Woody Woodburn was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1960; spent his adolescence in the '70s on the sweet-and-salty-aired coast of Southern California, and graduated from UC Santa Barbara; and for the past four decades has been a national award-winning newspaper columnist-sports originally and general interest for the past fifteen years.Now writing for The Ventura County Star, his honors include Columnist of the Year by the Associated Press News Executive Council, Copley News Service, and E. W. Scripps Newspapers; and induction into The Jim Murray Memorial Foundation's Journalists Hall of Fame and Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame as a journalist.Woody's work has also appeared in The Best American Sports Writing anthology and more than a dozen Chicken Soup For The Soul titles, and he is the author of two nonfiction books-the memoir Wooden & Me: Life Lessons from My Two-Decade Friendship with the Legendary Coach and Humanitarian to Help "Make Each Day Your Masterpiece" and Strawberries in Wintertime: Essays on Life, Love, and Laughter.When he is not tapping away on a QWERTY keyboard, Woody can be found padding the pavement, park grass or local beaches as a "Streaker" who has run a minimum of three miles (and averaged 11.4 miles) every day without fail since July 7, 2003, for one of the longest officially recognized running streaks in the world."Woody's Holiday Ball Drive" has enjoyed an even longer streak while donating nearly one million dollars of new sports balls to underprivileged youth.Longer still, Woody has a marriage streak of forty-one years with his college sweetheart Lisa.
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