I Know Why Old Men Plant Trees

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A refreshingly original immensely engaging tour de force of humor wit ... and grace.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Rich Follett </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Readers' Favorite</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A quiet act of rebellion can change everything.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wendell Jones once enforced the rules of conformity as an Algorithmic Landscape Compliance Officer. Now disillusioned and unemployed he plants a single outlawed flower in a sterile neighborhood park-a small forbidden gesture that sets in motion a chain of events far greater than he imagined.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Wendell tends his secret garden he encounters neighbors carrying their own quiet burdens: a grandfather punished for encouraging creativity a firefighter who remembers when truth mattered and a community caught between obedience and authenticity. Together their small acts of defiance become something larger-a testament to resilience in a world where bureaucracy smothers individuality.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Funny and heartfelt </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I Know Why Old Men Plant Trees</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> explores the absurdities of control the beauty of resistance and the enduring hope that even the smallest roots can break through concrete.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Perfect for fans of Richard Russo Barbara Kingsolver and Fredrik Backman's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Man Called Ove</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-novels that blend wit and heart while showing how ordinary lives can spark extraordinary change.</span></p>