The Last Shade Tree, the Story

Ariel’s little daughter Svnoyi screams in terror, and he doesn’t listen. He throws himself off a mountain in Slovakia, a continent away from Oklahoma and the Cherokee orphanage where he was raised. To forget the misery of his past, he won’t even use his birth name, Sequoyah. But the lonely clairvoyant, who fails to die, is only beginning his adventures inside his own radiant mind as the world around him grows ever more reckless and hostile.

Ariel is not alone. He is joined by Aleta, beautiful but selfish violinist, Ethan, neurotic physicist, Luz, tough ROTC instructor, and Jaroslav and Anichka from the Slovakian Alps. They reluctantly perform a mission assigned by the prescient Moon People, a duo of orbiting octogenarians—to restore humankind, destined to destroy itself in 2050.

They sweep across millennia, loving as passionately as they hate, and children with supernatural gifts are born including the exotic twins, Kuaray and Yacy. But nothing could prepare the wanderers for the reality of their destination.

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Serious questions about war and racism lie beneath the surface of this novel set in the 1960s and beyond—part fantasy, part historical, part science fiction, but mainly a family epic and love story that unites three generations, written with humor, satire, sensuality, and pathos. 

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An Amazon reader writers, “Time travel, magical realism, romance, it is all there. The characters … sometimes act in heroic ways and sometimes act in not so heroic ways. I found myself loving them at times and becoming angry with them at other times and crying with them at times.”

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The Last Shade Tree is published by the superb All Things That Matter Press, a no fee, royalty paying small press, providing expert editing and design. ATTMP’s motto for authors is “Share your Self with the world.”