Sunday Synopsis: "The Language of Trees" by Ilie Ruby

Gripping, suspenseful, magical, and richly atmospheric . . . Ilie Ruby's haunting debut novel, The Language of Trees, is exhilarating fiction that announces the arrival of a truly extraordinary storyteller.

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About the Author
Ilie Ruby grew up in Rochester, New York, and spent her childhood summers on Canandaigua Lake, the setting for her debut novel, The Language of Trees. She is the winner of the Edwin L. Moses Award for Fiction, chosen by T. C. Boyle; a Kerr Foundation Fiction Scholarship; and the Phi Kappa Phi Award for Creative Achievement in Fiction. Ruby is also a recipient of the Wesleyan Writer’s Conference Davidoff Scholarship in Nonfiction and the Kemp Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship.

Ruby has worked on PBS archaeology documentaries in Central America, taught 5th grade in Los Angeles, and written two children’s books: Making Gold and The Last Boat. In 1995, she graduated from the Masters of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California where she was fiction editor of The Southern California Anthology. Ilie Ruby is also a painter and proud adoptive mom to three children from Ethiopia.
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"Sunday Synopsis" is a new feature for 2010. Every Sunday, we will post the synopsis of an upcoming book that we think deserves your attention. Think of it as a mini e-paper. It'll be there in the morning when you wake up for your coffee.