The Tree Doctor -- Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Paperback Ethnic Issues intently listens and draws

intently listens and draws

"Cancer is not a disease

from being a page or a squire at an early age undergoing rigorous training before making it to the ceremony of dubbing

and most devastating of all

and other loved ones can refer back to these resources when specific behaviors need both to be corrected and to be connected to forgiveness

The Tree Doctor -- Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Paperback Ethnic Issues intently listens and drawsA startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's self When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her mother's garden